Independence · 1961–1990
Where people lived: streets, markets, houses, churches and mosques, and the villages upcountry.
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Looking over the city 1968
John Atherton · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗ · Report this picture
Freetown and the harbour 1967–68
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Young woman, Freetown 1968
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A street in Freetown, 1967 1967
Original title: Building, house
Martinsson, Erik · Public domain (CC0) · Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm · Source ↗ · Report this picture
Kufan 1967
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Village in northern Sierra Leone (West Africa) (851481247) 1967
John Atherton · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗ · Report this picture
Boulders on a hill above Bafodia, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (571225919) 1968
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Children in Freetown, Sierra Leone (West Africa), 1968 (1683284714) 1968
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Freetown, Sierra Leone (West Africa) 1968 (2289709675) 1968
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Freetown, Sierra Leone (West Africa) in 1968 (11975060165) Taken in 1968
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Large boulders on a hill above Bafodia, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2080553973) 1968
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Next-Door neighbours, Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (486810290) 1968
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State House, Freetown, Sierra Leone 1968
Bahsoon Bros. · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗ · Report this picture
The Mandingo village of Balandugu, Sierra Leone (West Africa) taken from near the top of Kufan Mountain (411552746) 1968
John Atherton · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗ · Report this picture
Fort Thornton - Freetown - Sierra Leone 1980
Brian Harrington Spier · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗ · Report this picture
KoiduStreet Unknown date (probably 1980s - the date on the photographs i
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Young Woman, Freetown, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2531932012) Photographed 1968
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Yengema Town - the Methodist Church Sierra Leone (3419086428) Photographed 1981–85
Brian Harrington Spier from Shanghai, China · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗ · Report this picture