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Sierra Leone Photograph album, c.1875
Sierra Leone Photograph album, c.1875
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Sierra Leone Photograph album, c.1875 containing 23 albumen prints (mounted, various dimensions, 11 x 15.5cm to 16 x 20cm) 4 of which captioned on mount as depicting Elmina Castle and Cape Coast Castle in Modern Ghana, 2 coastal scenes, captioned 'Sierra Leone' and the remainder uncaptioned but including group portraits of locals and Europeans (identities of sitters in one portrait recorded in pencil on mount), river or coastal scenes, locals at work, etc., presumably in Sierra Leone or environs, 18 further albumen prints laid in, all captioned in pencil on versos as showing people and scenes and in Sierra Leone (e.g. 'Mahumedans', 'Washerwomen', the 'college', 'Samaria Chapel, Westmoreland St', these 10.5 x 14.5cm to 12.5 x 16.5cm), and 7 large albumen print views of Madeira (mounted), in contemporary binding of decorative green cloth gilt, slightly shaken

Provenance: The Library of Keith Schellenberg (1929-2019), British businessman, Winter Olympian and laird of Eigg.
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Sierra Leone Photograph album, c.1875

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