EU: Guiné-Bissau: armazem de Casas Comerciais (1953) through time

Bissau 1891–1957 6 photos of this spot

6 photographs taken at the same spot in Bissau, spanning 1891–1957 — 6 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

A harbour view of Bissau, at the time a small settlement administered as part of Portuguese Guinea, photographed in 1891.

EU: Vista de Bissau, harbour view (1891) I 1891 A harbour view of Bissau, at the time a small settlement administered as part of Portuguese Guinea, photographed in 1891.

EU: Vista de Bissau, waterfront view (1891) II 1891 The waterfront of Bissau, in what was then Portuguese Guinea, captured in a companion view from 1891.

EU: Guiné-Bissau: armazem de Casas Comerciais (1953) 1953 A 1953 photograph of a commercial warehouse in Bissau, then the capital of Portuguese Guinea. The building reflects the trading infrastructure built up in the colonial-era port city, which later became the capital of independent Guinea-Bissau in 1974.

EU: Guiné-Bissau, granary storage building (1957) I 1957 A granary storage building near Bissau, then the capital of Portuguese Guinea, photographed in 1957 to document traditional rural construction.

EU: Guiné-Bissau, village with granaries (1957) II 1957 A village with traditional granaries near Bissau, photographed in 1957 during the final decades of Portuguese colonial rule in the territory.

EU: Guiné-Bissau: Construção de armazém indígena (1957) 1957 Workers constructing a traditional storage warehouse near Bissau in 1957, when the territory was administered as Portuguese Guinea.