West African trading activities

An album containing photographs showing aspects of European trade in the West African coast.
The photographs occupy 28 pages of an album; plates 21-27, 30-31 and 32-34 each occupy one page. There are a number of blank pages at the back. Most of the prints have brief captions, but these are not always reliable: see, e.g., plates 10 and 15.

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This album, together with Y3043MM and Y3043PP, was presented to the Library in 1986-87 by Derek Holt, a member of the Liverpool family formerly involved in West African trade.

Includes index.

A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.

The album is loose in its binding. Some of the pages are soiled and others have been torn out. The photographs are in good condition unless otherwise specified.

This item level description was entered by NE and MJC using information from the original typescript catalogue.

DateText: Dates taken from a note on the cover of the album..

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