The National Archives UK - CO
1890 Elmina, Ghana
Elmina, on the Gold Coast of present-day Ghana, is shown in this 1890 photograph from the UK National Archives' colonial collection; the town is the site of Elmina Castle, built by Portuguese traders in the fifteenth century and later held by the Dutch and British.
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