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Fort St. George. Elmina, Gold Coast, Africa – Antique Print

Fort St. George. Elmina, Gold Coast, Africa, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Fort St. George. Elmina, Gold Coast, Africa, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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A window into the past: Fort St. George. Elmina, Gold Coast, Africa, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Fort St. George. Elmina, Gold Coast, Africa

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Fort St. George at Elmina, on the Gold Coast, is the English name for a fortress whose origins go back to 1482, when Portuguese builders raised it as São Jorge da Mina. It is among the oldest surviving European buildings in sub-Saharan Africa. The Dutch seized it in 1637 and held it for more than two centuries, and the British took control in 1872, after which it served as a center of colonial administration. Its walls and dungeons are a stark reminder of its role in the Atlantic slave trade, when captive Africans were held there before shipment. The record gives no date or photographer, so the picture's exact age is uncertain.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesSource unknown - Rare Books? This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Forts; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,081 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-138917

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