The National Archives UK - CO
1910 Accra, Ghana
This 1910 photograph, part of a UK National Archives Colonial Office record series, depicts a scene in Accra, then the capital of the British Gold Coast colony. Such images were commonly compiled for official colonial administration and reporting purposes in the early twentieth century.
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