The National Archives UK - CO
1915 Accra, Ghana
Another entry in the Colonial Office's CO 1069 photographic series, this 1915 view of Accra was recorded during the First World War era of British rule over the Gold Coast, whose seat of government had moved there from Cape Coast decades earlier.
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