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Bell Untitled 0318

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17 images showing daily activities in a market located in Accra; One image of a "Wanzam" (a barber / surgeon) shaving the head of a man; Three images of a tailor and his apprentice working behind their sewing machines; Ten images of people in a northern migrant community near a market in Accra; One unidentifiable image (32 images total)
Date:
1957-1978
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bell, Willis E.
Collection:
Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)
Bell Untitled 0318

Bell Untitled 0345

Description:
Four images of the library of a government institution; Three exterior images of the Supreme Court in Accra, Ghana; The Supreme Court was established in 1876 as the highest tribunal in Ghana. It was abolished by the NLC in 1966 and vested judicial power in two sets of courts. It was again abolished by the National Redemption Council in 1972 and again reverted by the 1979 constitution when the third republic was established. It was left intact after the 1981 coup d'état.(7 images total)
Date:
1957-1978
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bell, Willis E.
Collection:
Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)
Bell Untitled 0345

Bell Untitled 0405

Description:
Three images of a old woman; Three images of a a group of men playing a game on the ground; Six images of women cooking for sale in a market; 10 images showing activities in an enclave housing a shrine; an old man in animal skin is playing a xylophone; pots used for ritual purposes are arranged under a boabab tree and a woman is holding a long stick and posing for the camera; Seven images of women with ritual pots on the outskirts of a community in the northern parts of Ghana; Two images of a group of children; Two images of goats and cows grazing; One image of a priest; One image a woman breastfeeding (36 images total)
Date:
1957-1978
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bell, Willis E.
Collection:
Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)
Bell Untitled 0405

Bell Untitled 0421

Description:
Seven images of a canoe been used as a means of transportation for people and items across a body of water; Ten images of members of a particular community at the shoreline of the body of water; Four images of a young woman wrapped in fabric; Four portraits of a young boy with a catapult wrapped around his head; One portrait of a young boy seated in a canoe; Two portraits of a man wear a smock and a hat; One image of a man riding a bicycle; One image of the Volta Lake; One image of a woman cooking in front of a thatched house; One image of a body of water bounded by vegetation (32 images total)
Date:
1957-1978
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bell, Willis E.
Collection:
Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)
Bell Untitled 0421

Bell Untitled 0404

Description:
Ten images showing a market scene at a community in the northern part of Ghana; Four images of a child undergoing an initiation ceremony. Three images of members of a community, resting under trees; Two images of a man playing drums for a No.3 Asafo company; Two images of the interior of a parish; One image of a road lined on both sides by a vast vegetation; One image of a garden; Two images of a woman breastfeeding; One portrait of a baby; Four exterior images of a school. Four images showing women and children on a busy route in a community; One image of a man and a young boy, standing under an umbrella (36 images total)
Date:
1957-1978
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bell, Willis E.
Collection:
Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)
Bell Untitled 0404

Bell Untitled 0422

Description:
16 images of traders and their wares. These wares displayed on tables, the group or carried on their heads for sale; A portrait of three men visiting a market; One portrait of an old man draped in white; Three aerial shots of a community and vegetation along the Volta Lake; Two images of a man constructing a thatched house; Two images of canoes transporting people across a body of water; Five images showing communities situated along a water body (36 images total)
Date:
1957-1978
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bell, Willis E.
Collection:
Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)
Bell Untitled 0422

Bell Untitled 0471

Description:
Nine images of the tomb of Dr Hideyo Noguchi at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. He was a Japanese bacteriologist and pathologist who died of yellow fever, a disease on which he was conducting medical research in 1928; One portrait of a man in short sleeved lenin shirt smiling; 12 images showing daily activities in a part of the central district in Accra; Eight exterior images of buildings in Accra; One image of a young boy with two dogs in a backyard. (32 images total)
Date:
1957-1978
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bell, Willis E.
Collection:
Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)
Bell Untitled 0471

Bell Untitled 0488

Description:
15 aerial images of the resettlement housing along the Volta River Basin; Three images of combined harvestors parked under a shed; Three aerial shots of vast vegetation; One image of an officer of the Ghana air force sitting in a helicopter; One image of aviation personel in front of a helicopter; Six images of the remains of buildings destroyed along the Volta Basin; One exterior image of a local factory; Two images of a moslem community; Three exterior images of a resettlement community. (35 images total)
Date:
1957-1978
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bell, Willis E.
Collection:
Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)
Bell Untitled 0488