People and places in the Gold Coast [Ghana] by Frank Deaville Walker

Groups include: missionary and children on shore in front of Salt Pond Church; girl guides on parade, Accra; large group of boys performing regimented exercises, Government school, Accra; girls outside High School, Accra; men inside mosque, Accra; brownies and cubs, Accra; Mfantsipim boys "swotting"...

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Archive & Special Collections MMS/17/07/06/03/10 Open

Order number: MMS Box 1195A
Date(s) of creation: c 1900-c 1920
Level: File
Format: Archive           

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callnumber MMS/17/07/06/03/10
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title People and places in the Gold Coast [Ghana] by Frank Deaville Walker
scb_date_creation c 1900-c 1920
scb_level File
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scb_extent 52 silver gelatin prints
format Archive
description Groups include: missionary and children on shore in front of Salt Pond Church; girl guides on parade, Accra; large group of boys performing regimented exercises, Government school, Accra; girls outside High School, Accra; men inside mosque, Accra; brownies and cubs, Accra; Mfantsipim boys "swotting"; group around canoe on beach; four unclothed or partially clothed young boys looking at camera with different emotions; school girls with dolls; the Ga King of Accra with others [interior portrait, seated, smiling]; schoolgirls carrying jugs; people with sacks of cocoa at depot. People include: portraits of Fauti people: an old man smoking, three Methodist ladies and full length portrait of man with hands on hips [published in The Kingdom Overseas January 1935]; portrait of girl looking into a mirror; village church elder; two young men in traditional robes, one with skin markings (raised tattoo); chiefs at doorway; men playing board game. Events include: opening of Salt Pond Church. Activities include: students exercising outside the school at Abouri; girls doing "prep" outside boarding school, Cape Coast; loading boats at Sekondi; rowing boat; singing class at Wenchi; cobbler at work outside shop; building road through forest; landing ashore via chair, ?Takoradi. Places or buildings include: exterior view and interior view showing pulpit of Wesley church, Cape Coast; Wesley College, Kumasi; hospital, Accra; exterior view of mosque, Accra; Mfantsipim Boys school; Cape Coast Castle; the market, Sekondi; unfinished church; Sekondi; Elmina castle including view of colonnade; view of Elmina from the castle; Christian's Bay castle. Also includes: ferry over ?Prah River; overturned car on road. Prints taken by/received from: Frank Deaville Walker.
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright probably held by Methodist Missionary Society.
scb_use_restrictions For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
scb_file_number 10
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