Tall-masted sailing vessels crowd the quayside at Dakar's bustling colonial harbor, the steamship Scholl moored alongside timber-strewn docks as a larger ocean liner idles in the background — a rare snapshot of French West Africa's commercial gateway at the dawn of the twentieth century. This black-and-white photographic carte postale, numbered 28 in the "Afrique Occidentale – Sénégal" series, captures the port of Dakar (Dakar, Le Port) with crisp detail: railway tracks running along the quay, warehouses, a wrought-iron fence in the foreground, and the interplay of sail and steam that defined the era's transition in maritime trade. Published by the prolific Edmond Fortier of Dakar, whose "Collection générale Fortier, Dakar" imprint anchored documentary photography of French West Africa between roughly 1900 and 1910, this card was never posted and retains a clean, unused reverse with the classic pre-divided French-colonial "Carte Postale / Correspondance / Adresse" layout — indicating a pre-1904 or early undivided-back era card.