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A rare set of sixty silver-gelatine prints with captions on …
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663
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A rare set of sixty silver-gelatine prints with captions on …
See original version (French)
Estimate €150 - €250
Voluntary lot
Description
A rare set of sixty silver-gelatine prints with captions on typewritten labels on the reverse.
Photographers: R. Notterdam / C. Lamote / A. Da Cruz / H. Goldstein / J. Mulders / JP Jourdois. From 1947 to 1952.
In the Belgian Congo / Congopresse.
(The town of Elisabethville / port facilities of the Belgian Congo’s oil mills / a house belonging to a merchant from Angola / one of the community centres in the indigenous quarter of Leopoldville / a view of the Renkin district / the indigenous quarter of Leopoldville / aerial view of Leopoldville / sunset on the banks of the River Congo / the General Olsen, the newest of the mail boats / aerial view of part of the port of Leopoldville /…… /the Church of Our Lady of the Congo/ the entrance to the public market/….. /the Regina Hotel/ offices and flats /Léopoldville Town Hall/…/ Classrooms at Saint-Joseph College/the Colonial Transport Operating Office (Otraco)/the Congo Railway Company//inauguration of the King Baudouin Stadium on 1 July 1952/
Size 24x18 cm.
Note: INFORCONGO [Congopresse]. The Information and Documentation Centre for the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi.
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