Accra native women – Historic Print
![Accra native women, [between 1895 and 1896] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/72/72676c55c169-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Accra native women. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Accra native women
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This print presents the women of Accra, a coastal town in what was then the British Gold Coast, now Ghana. It belongs to the American Colonization Society collection, a group founded in 1816 to resettle free Black Americans in Africa, mainly in what became Liberia. The date, given as between 1895 and 1896, comes from a caption card that was later revised, so it is an estimate to verify. Accra's Ga people had long traded with European merchants along the coast, a history that shaped the town when this photograph was made.
| Created / published | [between 1895 and 1896] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | No. 182. American Colonization Society Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card with subsequent revisions. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,026 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-159708 |
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