IVORY COAST - Lot 148

IVORY COAST Impression d'Afrique" album featuring portraits and landscapes of the Ivory Coast, ca.1942-1952. Photographs. Album comprising 188 vintage silver prints (including contretypes), some captioned and dated in ink beneath the image. In a modern box. Preparation of palm branches to cover the roof of a hut, Issia camp and chapel, Daloa, bush hut, Zakoua, market, cotton merchants, corn merchants, Saoura, games with children, pottery making, group of women returning from the market, crossing the Marahoué, a swamp, piles of rice, woman and child, hairstyles, mourning, dances, coffee tree in bloom, bread oven in a termite mound, children. Images: approx. 6 x 8.5 cm; album: 16.5 x 13.5 cm