The National Archives UK - CO
1890 Elmina, Ghana
This 1890 view of Elmina, on Ghana's Gold Coast, comes from the same UK National Archives series documenting the town beside its landmark fortress, one of the oldest European structures in sub-Saharan Africa.
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