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Postcard African Wild Life Giraffe Resting Kenya Chrome Sapra Studio Nairobi
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Chrome · 1965

Postcard African Wild Life Giraffe Resting Kenya Chrome Sapra Studio Nairobi

Kenya, East Africa1965ChromeExcellent

Four reticulated giraffes rest languidly in lush green savanna brush, their impossibly long necks rising like ancient columns against a canopy of twisted acacia and dense foliage — a rare and intimate view of Africa's tallest animals in a posture seldom captured on film. Published by Sapra Studio out of Nairobi, Kenya (P.O. Box 5892), this card is part of the well-documented "African Wild Life" series that circulated widely through East African tourism shops and game lodges in the 1960s and early 1970s. Sapra Studio was a major Nairobi-based photographic publisher serving the burgeoning East African safari tourism industry, and their numbered wildlife series are keenly collected today as records of both natural history and mid-century African travel culture. This unused example is clean and bright, carrying card number N. 57 in the series.

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PC-02300 · Sapra Studio, Nairobi, Kenya
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