Accra (inhabited place)
Found in 140 Collections and/or Records:
Loading cocoa into surf boats, Accra, Gold Coast, 1924
(PC3).
Loading cocoa into surf boats, Accra, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1924
MISSING. Guggisberg stated: '...the wonderful scene on Accra beach, with the brown bags of cocoa representing the wealth of the country; the active Krooboys, the gleaming silvery sands, and the red-brown cliffs and white houses in the background' (Guggisberg, Gold Coast News, no. 25).
Loading passengers + cocoa from surf boats off Accra, 1940
The negative envelope is numbered '1'.
Loading passengers + cocoa from surf boats off Accra, 1940
The negative envelope is numbered '1'.
Loading passengers + cocoa from surf boats off Accra, 1940
The negative envelope is numbered '1'.
Loading passengers + cocoa from surf boats off Accra, 1940
The negative envelope is numbered '1'.
Loading passengers + cocoa from surf boats off Accra, 1940
The negative envelope is numbered '1'.
Maps, 1965
One street map of Accra and one 1:500,000 road map of Southern Ghana 1965 (produced by Survey of Ghana).
[March past of Gold Coast Regiment], 1940-06
A handwritten note, in the same hand as the envelope captions, reads 'Accra 1939 or 1940. March past of Gold Coast Regiment before going to E Africa. Salute taken by H.E. Sir Arnold Hodson, Governor. Regiment com. [?commanded] by Brigadier Richards. This was the only series of photographs taken of it occasion [sic]'. The negative envelope is numbered '21'.
[March past of Gold Coast Regiment], 1940-06
A print measuring 180 x 130 mm. A handwritten note, in the same hand as the envelope captions, reads 'Accra 1939 or 1940. March past of Gold Coast Regiment before going to E Africa. Salute taken by H.E. Sir Arnold Hodson, Governor. Regiment com. [?commanded] by Brigadier Richards. This was the only series of photographs taken of it occasion [sic]'.
[March past of Gold Coast Regiment], 1940-06
A handwritten note, in the same hand as the envelope captions, reads 'Accra 1939 or 1940. March past of Gold Coast Regiment before going to E Africa. Salute taken by H.E. Sir Arnold Hodson, Governor. Regiment com. [?commanded] by Brigadier Richards. This was the only series of photographs taken of it occasion [sic]'. The negative envelope is numbered '21'.
[March past of Gold Coast Regiment], 1940-06
A handwritten note, in the same hand as the envelope captions, reads 'Accra 1939 or 1940. March past of Gold Coast Regiment before going to E Africa. Salute taken by H.E. Sir Arnold Hodson, Governor. Regiment com. [?commanded] by Brigadier Richards. This was the only series of photographs taken of it occasion [sic]'. The negative envelope is numbered '21'.
[March past of Gold Coast Regiment], 1940-06
A handwritten note, in the same hand as the envelope captions, reads 'Accra 1939 or 1940. March past of Gold Coast Regiment before going to E Africa. Salute taken by H.E. Sir Arnold Hodson, Governor. Regiment com. [?commanded] by Brigadier Richards. This was the only series of photographs taken of it occasion [sic]'. The negative envelope is numbered '21'.

Miss Mensah goes to vote, 1951-02
111 x 160 mm. The caption on the reverse reads 'The last stage in Miss Mensah's voting. She drops her marked and folded paper in the sealed ballot box'. It continues, at length, to give details about the elections.
Native Blacksmith at Work (Interior of the Gold Coast, W.A.), 1911 - 1929
Coloured postcard. Copyright Basel Mission Book Depot, Accra. No. 82.
Native woman, Accra, 1884-02-25
56 x 91 mm. A full length studio portrit of an African woman wearing a petterned skirt and a pinafore, her hair arranged in two upstanding ponytails on either side of her head.
Old Accra, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1924
The caption on the reverse reads: 'Old Accra, Gold Coast. One of the squalid streets in old Accra which latter is steadily disappearing and giving way to broad highways and well-built dwelling-houses'.
Guggisberg stated: '...one of the congested quarters of Accra with its tumble-down hovels, its naked babies, its drainless street, a delightful scene... ' (Guggisberg, Gold Coast News, no. 25).
Old Type house for Europeans, Accra, Gold Coast, 1924
Identified by Guggisberg as the home of Mr and Mrs Bettington , ‘among the shrubs and roses we can see the Inspector-General of Police in one of his rare restful moments, with the lady to whom so many of us in this country owe gratitude beside him. She herself is a wonderful bit of propaganda, for has she not lived in West Africa for 28 years?'
On the steps of Government House Accra, 1919 - 1929
215 x 150 mm. Written on the back of is ‘Old Comrades Association Government House’. Two large groups of men and women in evening dress or uniform. Guggisberg, in tropical military uniform, is seated in the centre with Lady Guggisberg, in evening dress with the insignia of the C.B.E.
[Opening of the Accra Water Works: after the fountain was unveiled], 1914-01-10
210 x 140 mm.
[Opening of the Accra Water Works: after the fountain was unveiled], 1914-01-10
205 x 140 mm. On the fountain can be discerned an inscription recording the laying of the stone by Sir John Rodger, Governor of the Gold Coast, 1910.
[Opening of the Accra Water Works: Car and Guard of Honour awaiting the Governor], 1914-01-10
205 x 140 mm.
[Opening of the Accra Water Works: Clifford speaking; in the foreground is an ornamental fountain shrouded in cloth], 1914-01-10
200 x 140 mm.
[Opening of the Accra Water Works: General view of the ceremony], 1914-01-10
205 x 140 mm.
[Opening of the Accra Water Works: Party leaving the dais], 1914-01-10
200 x 140 mm.