Accra Osu
1900 Accra, Ghana
This image, cataloged as spanning the years 1885 to 1914, shows the Osu district of Accra, the capital of Ghana on the Gulf of Guinea. Osu was one of the city's earliest European trading settlements, home first to Danish and later to British coastal forts.
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