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1870 Cape Coast, Ghana
Another plate from the same CO 1069 Colonial Office collection records a scene in Cape Coast, Gold Coast, in 1870, a coastal town long important to British trade and administration in West Africa and one of the oldest European settlements on that stretch of coast.
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