French West Africa

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16 colonial postcards showing the effect of the colonial presence in Mali, including railroad development.

Price: $450.00

FA 268

Rare postcard of King Behanzin and his family in exile in Algeria. B

Price: $90.00

FA 264

6 photo album pages of a visit to Dahomey in 1923. Mostly Cotonou but some other places as well, showing fetish ceremonies, local markets, also one sheet on Lagos, showing local policeman. 83 photos, all captioned. B

Price: $380.00

FA 263

4 French press photos covering the 1960 declaration of independence in Mauritania as well as a 1978 photo of military protection against the Polisario. All captioned. B

Price: $200.00

FA 261

45-page tourist brochure produced by the Haut Commissaire de la Republic Gouverneur General of French West Africa, 1954. B

Price: $180.00

FA 225

Private collection of a visitor to Treichville in Cote d’Ivoire in the 1950s. Two sets of photos; 41 black and white snaps mostly of the local market and dancers, as well as surrounding regions, most captioned; the other is 21 color snaps showing different versions of same subject.

Price: $150.00

Note: Treichville is a neighborhood in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. It is one of the 10 urban communes of the city. Treichville is known as one of the most lively neighborhoods in Abidjan, especially around the Crossroad France-Amérique. The streets in Treichville do not have names but are numbered from 1 to 47. The commune is served by a railway station belonging to the RAN. The railway offers a passenger service to Ouagadougou, in Burkina Faso, which takes around 30 hours. The Autonomous Port of Abidjan is located in Treichville. Treichville's name comes from Marcel Treich-Laplène (1860–1890), who was a French resident in Ivory Coast. In March and April 2011, Treichville was caught up in the 2010–2011 Ivorian crisis and many people there were killed.

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16 colonial postcards of types of Cote d’Ivoire. B

Price: $480.00

FA 204

Two photographic postcards of Niamey, Niger around the time of Independence.

NOTE: Niamey replaced Zinder as the territorial capital from 1903 to 1911 and again in 1926, after which large-scale development occurred. The first city plan in 1930 relocated neighbourhoods and enacted segregation of European and indigenous neighbourhoods, which remained separate until the 1950s. Niamey held Niger's first municipal elections in 1956, electing Djibo Bakary as the first mayor.

Price: $60.00

WW 366Archive belonging to a French Lieutenant (then later Captain) with the 2nd Colonial Infantry Regiment named Jean Bernard Escard. He served in Germany during WW2, then transferred to Tonkin and Cambodia and later Algeria, Madagascar and Senegal. Included is a full diary covering his time in Indochina in 1945-1946, with artwork, loose news clippings, a menu, etc. Also two small notebooks dated 1939 and 1941 where he made notes. Numerous documents from his assignments in Senegal, Madagascar, Algeria. Over 50 pages of documents, some marked SECRET, 3 photo albums containing over 230 real photos. Most prolific is his time in Indochina. M