Collection: Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Eight images of factories and monuments initiated by Dr Kwame Nkrumah, First president of Ghana; 15 aerial view of rivers and water logged areas in Ghana; Nine images of a plane with cross section of the community (35 images total)
Date:: 1957-1978
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bell, Willis E.
Collection:: Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)

Description:: Three images of pupils carrying classroom furniture into a classroom; Two exterior images of two women and a boy at the outskirts of the Volta resettlement camps; A portrait of a young man;17 images of the Volta resettlement camps;11 images of the settlements situated along the Volta basin prior to the flooding caused by the construction of the dam; An image of woman and son cooking infront a residence within the volta resettlement camps; One image of a musical instrument. (35 images total)
Date:: 1957-1978
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bell, Willis E.
Collection:: Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)

Description:: 19 images of flooded images along the Volta basin; Nine aerial shots of Volta River Authority resettlement communities; Two exterior shots of a residence in Akosombo (36 images total)
Date:: 1957-1978
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bell, Willis E.
Collection:: Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)

Description:: Four portraits of fishermen sitting on their boats; Two images of sailors pouring oil into their boats; 22 images of community on the river banks trying to cross the the Volt River by canoe. Two images of fishermen standing in their canoes; Two images of a communited sumerged in water near the Volta River Basin (35 images total)
Date:: 1957-1978
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bell, Willis E.
Collection:: Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)

Description:: Six images of a maisons laying blocks on a construction of resettlement housing along the Volta Basin; Two exterior images of a resettlement house with tobacco drying outside; Four exterior images of blades for a combined harvestor in the resettlement community; Three images of disc ploughs parked near a resettlement house; Eight images of a town hall meetings in the new resettlement community; 20 exterior images of a resettlement community with members walking and a woman preparing food. (35 images total)
Date:: 1957-1978
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bell, Willis E.
Collection:: Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)

Description:: 33 exterior images of building and daily life in the new resettlement community, some members are in their backyard farms and others in the market; Two portraits of an elderly woman smiling to camera. Behind her is a girl smiling and two pistols hygenically covered with cotton string bags. The fufu pistols are used for pounding "Fufu" a Ghanaian dish made by pounding and starring cassava and plantain (35 images total)
Date:: 1957-1978
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bell, Willis E.
Collection:: Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)

Description:: 14 images of an elderman in the outskirts of a community in the Northen part of Ghana; 17 images of people transporting by boat through the flooded Volta River Basin. (35 images total)
Date:: 1957-1978
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bell, Willis E.
Collection:: Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)

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)

Description:: 16 images of the vegetation along the volta basin, after the flooding of the region; Five images of a man wearing a cap, smoking a pipe; Two images of a young girl wearing a head scarf (35 images total)
Date:: 1957-1978
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bell, Willis E.
Collection:: Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)

Description:: 35 images of the vegetation along the Volta basin, after the flooding of the region (35 images total)
Date:: 1957-1978
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bell, Willis E.
Collection:: Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)

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