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200x 120 mm.

Scope and Contents British Official photographs.Junior officers for the Gold Coast Department of Agriculture receive their training at the Kumasi Agricultural Centre. Staffed by an agricultural officer and two assistants, the centre provides a three year course. Young men from the secondary schools spend a first year in the Training Centre, a second year on field work and a third year at the Centre. They are taught agricultural principles about the cultivation of the soil and the maintenance of soil...

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Coloured slides, 50 x 50 mm, mostly Kodak, originally stored in a carrying case. They relate to nursing in Nigeria and Ghana.

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A 42-page album of black and white photographs, measuring 240 x 320 mm, attached with photograph corners and interleaved with tissue. Some have written captions on flimsy paper stuck in. This album was given to Miss Pearce Simmons, Adviser to the Principal, Community Health Nurses School, Akim Oda, Ghana, perhaps on her retirement. Photographs taken by Martin Kobina Frimpong Model Photo Service.

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85 x 60 mm.

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85 x 60 mm.

Scope and Contents Loose photographs taken by Alan Rudwick unless otherwise indicated. All photographs are 215 x 165 mm unless otherwise stated. They fall into two groups; photographs of trade castles (1-28) and other views, chiefly of Achimota. Along the West Africa coast are the remains of more than 40 castles and fortified posts set up by European nations engaged in commerce, including the Transatlantic slave trade, with West Africa, the greatest concentration being in what became the Gold Coast, now...

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Showing girls at work in a dressmaking class. The typewritten caption on the reverse continues 'the girls greatly enjoy it and make themselves most attractive garments'.

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85 x 60 mm.

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85 x 60 mm.

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85 x 60 mm.

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140 x 90 mm. Sepia.

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Coloured slides, 50 x 50 mm, mostly Kodak, originally stored in a carrying case. They relate to nursing in Nigeria and Ghana.

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150 x 200 mm. Character in ‘Uncle Sam’ costume, one of the Red Cross Tableaux, 1917.

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85 x 60 mm. Young African.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of photographs taken by the Ministry of Information West African Photographic Service, giving a comprehensive record of the varied aspects of the College's work. These pictures have been extensively reproduced in books and articles. As Dr. R.W. Stopford is shown as Principal, a post he held from 1941 to 1945, they must date from this period. The Library has three different groups of photographs drawn from this series, two of which form this collection:(A) 55, 260 x...

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Accompanying this caption, in brackets, is the following: 'Wilson will give you precise locality and further details.'

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The caption on the reverse reads: 'An Ashanti Priest, Gold Coast. A fetish priest with the regalia of his office, including the 'doso' or kilt of palm leaf fibre'.

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Group portrait of Achimota staff seated round a table.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'The Gold Coast Government believes in rooting its education in the life of the people. Key institutions in the education system of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast are at Tamale and include a senior boarding school for boys and a training college for teachers. The people of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast are first and foremost...

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(PC23).

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The caption on the reverse reads: 'Anamabo Fort, Gold Coast. A seventeenth century fort, built by 'The Royal African Company' and lying some twelve miles east of Cape Coast Castle. It was heavily besieged by the Ashanti armies that overran the country in about 1825'.

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions. The slides appear to have been gathered for lecture purposes and are not necessarily on the work of the CMS. They relate to various parts of the continent.

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150 x 200 mm. One of the Red Cross Tableaux 1917. Identified in a contemporary hand as Mr Bettington. Digby Rowland Albemarle Bettington (b. 1879) served in the South African and Great Wars. After police posts in Cyprus and Sierra Leone, he was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Police, Gold Coast, in 1910 and promoted to Inspector-General in 1917. See also Y30448L/66.

Scope and Contents 150 x 200 mm. One of the items in the Tableaux arranged in aid of the Red Cross by Lady Clifford in 1917. Her efforts for the Red Cross in 1917 also included a procession of over 3,000 costumed children, and a gymkhana meeting. In 1918 she edited a book ‘Our Days on the Gold Coast’ containing essays on the events of one day submitted by a wide variety of the Colony's inhabitants, and published in aid of the Red Cross. She was appointed C.B.E. in 1918. This plate is reproduced after page 36...