MAMATTAH Charles M. K.Livre Rare Book
[GOLD COAST / GHANA]:Biblio.com
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM CONTAINING 88 IMAGES OF LIFE IN THE GOLD COAST DURING THE 1930S
19351683Original photograph album. c.1935. Small oblong photograph album 18 x 13cm. Contemporary quarter blue cloth over paper-covered boards. The contents comprising 43pp. containing 88 mounted black and white photographs depicting peoples and scenes in the Gold Coast many with annotations in ink beneath. Each photograph measuring approximately 8 x 6cm. Condition is very good the binding remaining firm with a little rubbing to the extremities. The contents with some marking from the glue used to mount the photographs at the corners affecting four pages are otherwise in very good order. The photographs themselves remain clean and undamaged. An uncommon snap-shot album created by a British soldier stationed in the Gold Coast now Ghana during the 1930s predominantly documenting local people and their daily lives in the south of the country with several mentions of Busua and Takoradi. The album's creator clearly had a genuine interest in the country recording with detail various aspects of the society around him including for example depictions of street scenes festivities and portraits a "native school teacher with his class on the bush path near Bushwa" "palm wine in gourds or calabashes sold by native women" "native girl unmarried pounding cassara to make fu-fu" "two native girls both married as discerned by their hair pattern" "a Mohammedan festival" and "a Paramount Chief under his umbrella of state". [Original photograph album]. hardcover
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