Freetown Gallery

Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa

Fourah Bay College, Mount Aureol, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Founded in 1827 by the Church Missionary Society as an Anglican missionary school, it is the oldest university in West Africa. Date: circa 1912

© Mary Evans / Pharcide

1910s, Africa, African, Aureol, Balcony, Bay, Building, Buildings, Church, College, Dormer, Education, Fourah, Freetown, Garden, Gardens, Grass, Higher, Large, Lawn, Leone, Mount, Sierra, Suburbs, Trees, Veranda, Verandah, West, Window, Windows

Soldier in uniform, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa

Soldier in khaki uniform in a studio photograph, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa, December 1944. Date: 1944

© Mary Evans / Pharcide

1940s, 2nd, 40s, Africa, African, Backdrop, Capital, City, Forties, Freetown, Hat, Ii, Khaki, Leone, Man, Men, Painted, Shoes, Shorts, Sierra, Socks, Soldier, War, Wartime, West, White, World, Ww2, Wwii

Street scene, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa

Street scene with the Co-Operative Wholesale Society Limited, Cotton Department, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Date: circa 1915

© Mary Evans / Pharcide

1910s, 1915, Africa, African, Building, Buildings, Coop, Cooperative, Cotton, Department, Empty, Freetown, Leone, Limited, Operative, Pedestrians, People, Quiet, Road, Shop, Shops, Sierra, Society, Street, West, Wholesale, Wide