Collection of old postcards from French West Africa

The old postcards cover the period from 1900 to 1959. Owing to their creation and purpose, the postcards offer a wealth of information that can shed light to entire chapters of Africa history as a whole, and Senegal specifically. Numbering 1515 items, they cover themes as diverse as they are varied, such as politics, religion, agriculture, economy, education, sport, infrastructures.

Registration Year: 2015
Submission Year: 2014
Submitted by: Senegal
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Document type: Postcards

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