FA 333
Two colonial postcards of villages outside of Libreville.
Price: $50.00
French Equatorial Africa
FA 331
Photo album taken by J. M. Beynet using a Foca Oplarex camera. Based in French Guinea in 1951, he was an engineer involved in port construction at Kassa, part of the Iles de Los off the coast of Conakry. He goes inland with his wife and visits various places in Guinea, such as Timbo, Kankan, Kindia, Takamou, Macenta, Tarankoro, Kissidougou, Fenaria, Koule, Donka hospital in Conakry. Photo of newly appointed governor of French Guinea, Paul Henri Sirieux. 119 photos in all. Very nicely put together, with nice views of smaller villages, local types, and hut construction.
Price: $980.00
Note: Paul Henri Sirieux (1908-2003 ) was governor of French Guinea from February, 1951 to April, 1953. Before that he was governor of French Somaliland from 1946-1950. During the war he fought the Italians in Eritrea and was General de Gaulle’s head of press services in London.
FA 298
27 page document which was the deliberations of October 17, 1944 for meetings held during a conference held in Brazzaville from January 30 to February 8, 1944. The purpose of the conference was to “provide the head of the Colonies Department, and through them to the CLN, with the views of the heads of territories on the direction to be given to French colonial policy in Africa, as well as collect opinions on the thousand ways of achieving this, in the France of tomorrow and in particular in the new constitution that the country will have to give, the integration of the French empire”.
This conference was held while France was under Nazi Occupation, but even at that early time there was a recognition that French policy in Africa had to change.
Price: $500.00
FA 297
Two decorative colonial postcards of 1907 Libreville.
Price: $60.00
FA 296
FA 296
16 colonial postcard of the social and economic life in Gabon. Shown are cooking, going to church, porters, hair cutting, dancing/tam-tam, fishing, forest exploitation, local factories and workers, hunting, masonry.
Price: $480.00
FA 295
Six colonial postcards of the French colonial presence in Gabon. Shown are July 14 celebrations, sport fishing, Governor General Merlin meeting with local chiefs, Libreville post office.
Price: $125.00
FA 294
12 colonial postcards of different types and villages of Gabon. Shown are Ndumu, Pahouine, Issoghos, an Akalai chief, Azoua village.
Price: $360.00
FA 293
Five colonial postcards issued by missionary societies operating in Gabon.
Price: $150.00
FA 292
FA 292
Homogeneous collection of 19 colonial postcards of posed Gabon types of Port-Gentil and Ogooue.
Price: $570.00
FA 291
Complete set of 10 colonial postcards by the Oubangui-Chari Pefecture Apostolique of the Mission des Peres du St. Esprit.
Price: $300.00