Scope and Contents The caption on the reverse reads: 'Mining. This Mine was discovered by the Government Geologist in 1915 at the time when the allies were in great need of Manganese. Five million steel helmets were made from Manganese steel during the war'.Guggisberg stated: 'The rich red colouring of the face of the manganese ore mines at Nsuta, the deep browns and greys of the piles of ore on the right lend an artistic touch to the busy scene of everyday work of sweating miners and rattling...

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View of cannon on the ramparts of the Spur, built about 1750. An English Fort was begun on this spot in the 1690s; it has endured many sieges and has undergone a great deal of rebuilding.

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The caption on the reverse reads: 'Dixcove, near Seccondee, Gold Coast. One of the most picturesque of the old forts built on the Coast of the Gulf of Guinea in the early eighteenth century'.

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The caption on the reverse reads: 'Gold Mine, Gold Coast. This is one of the Mines on the Banquet Reef, near Tarquah, in the Gold Coast Colony'.

Guggisberg stated: 'The open-air painting of Abbontiakoon, with its variety of greens, the winding track of the Government Railway to Coomassie in the foreground and the distant blue hills, give a characteristic scene in the mining district' (Guggisberg, Gold Coast News, no. 25).

Scope and Contents From the File: The early photographs in this section were taken during two visits to Kokstad in the east of the province; the first at the end of 1965 followed John Ewart Marnham's visit to Lesotho; the remainder dated August 1967. A number of purely family photographs have been removed. Following these are a number of scenes in the vicinity of Cape Town and along the southern coast - Somerset West, George, Knysa, Hermanus, the ostrich farm at Oudstchoorn, the mouth of the Storms River and nearby...

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165 x 115 mm. The caption on the reverse reads '(10). A view of the log pond at Takoradi Harbour, where logs of all classifications, shapes and sizes await shipment'. A cargo vessel is moored in the background.

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Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.

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The negative envelope is numbered '64'.

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116 x 137 mm. The caption on the reverse reads '(See Feature Set Intro. No. 506). (2). Ore from the five shafts of the A.B.A. company comes to the central mills by rope railways winding up the wooded valleys around Tarkwa. Main Reef is about 2,000 ft. down'.

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'No. 118' printed on bottom left corner.

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The caption on the reverse reads: 'Seccondee Port. One of the principal ports of the Gold Coast. 340,000 tons of exports and imports were handled in 1923 in spite of restricted wharfage'.