The National Archives UK - CO
1870 Accra, Ghana
A photograph from the British colonial archive documenting Accra, on the Gold Coast, in 1870. Accra was a growing coastal trading settlement under British influence in this period, prior to the formal establishment of the Gold Coast Colony in 1874.
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