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1890 Cape Coast, Ghana
This 1890 image is held in the UK National Archives' colonial photographic collection and depicts Cape Coast, on Ghana's Gold Coast, home to Cape Coast Castle, one of the coast's oldest and best known European-built fortifications.
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