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Photo album of colonial Guyana
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0997
Content Description
A photo album by an unknown creator titled "West Indies and British Guiana and its 1894 Rivers and Gold Fields." Despite the title, the photos appear to cover only the British colonial territory known then as British Guiana, which is now named Guyana. The album contains twenty black-and-white photos of Georgetown street life and the Botanical Gardens. Many photographs are of people of color, with racial slurs to describe them. Content Warning...
Dates:
1894
Found in:
Special Collections