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Home Page of Africana Postcard Collection

1890-1920

The Africana Historic Postcard Collection has significant value for researchers and students working on sub-Saharan Africa’s colonial life and cultural history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In addition to documenting representations of African life from a specific period of time, postcards images also chronicle the transformation of cultural, political and social landscapes in the African continent. Most of the postcard imagery from the African colonies was taken by military and colonial officials, missionary workers and professional photographers.
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