Captain Benguey Photographs

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Afr. s. 2358
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1905
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 24 slides Two of the slides are broken.

Scope and Content

Twenty-four stereoscopic glass slides of scenes in Coomassie (Kumasi), Ghana, taken by Captain Benguey on visit there in 1905, accompanied by J.E. Fell, provincial commissioner.

Administrative / Biographical History

Captain Benguey was an administrator in Cote d'Ivoire, [c1900s].

Arrangement

The slides were originally catalogued as a book with shelfmark 722.11 s. 12.

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Note

Collection level description created by Paul Davidson, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.

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