The Palais de Justice of Dakar, capital of French West Africa — a colonnaded Beaux-Arts government building in pale stone, pedestrians in flowing robes passing before it on a quiet boulevard shaded by a spreading tree. This card is from the Collection Générale Fortier, produced by François-Edmond Fortier (1862–1928), the most prolific documentary photographer of French West Africa, who made Dakar his home around 1900 and produced over 3,300 postcards of the region. His images of Dakar's colonial architecture, street life, and people are now held by the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian, and a collection of 1,515 of his postcards was added to UNESCO's Memory of the World register in 2015. Dakar had become the administrative capital of French West Africa — encompassing Senegal, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, and other territories — in 1902. Card no. 13 in the series. Never mailed.

• Caption: 13 — Afrique Occidentale — Sénégal — Dakar — Palais de Justice.
• Card no.: 13
• Publisher: Collection Générale Fortier — Dakar
• Status: Unposted