Passage to the Congo
1939 Lobito, Angola
Taken in 1939, this photograph documents a stop at Lobito, Angola, a deep-water port town built up in the early twentieth century as a gateway for cargo and passenger traffic bound for the interior of the Belgian Congo via the Benguela railway.
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