Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Government House, Agaga
[between 1877-1895]
Africa
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.
Thatched structure with several troops standing and a score of natives sitting on ground. Two prominent men standing before the troops. One with a white pike helmut and white umbrella; the second in a black suite and wearing a top hat, between 1877-1895. Accompanying inscription reads, "Government House Agaga." Photographer unknown.
- Collection
- West African photographs
- Catalog date
- [between 1877-1895]
- Recorded places
- Africa
- Format and extent
- 1 Print (albumen., b&w, 14 x 20 cm.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: EEPA.1995-017, Item EEPA 1995-170095
Collection: West African photographs