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Di Tɛm ɛn Tɔri is a living archive of Sierra Leone's history: stories, places, voices and old photographs, gathered before they are lost.

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BEATTY(1915) Fig10 Weaving country cloth — BEATTY(1915) Fig10 Weaving country cloth published 1915
Beatty, Kenneth James, (Sir); Sierra Leone. · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗

SierraLeone Hofstra 088 — SierraLeone Hofstra 088 between 1934 and 1936 date QS:P,+1934-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P131
Sjoerd Hofstra · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗

SierraLeone Hofstra 089 — SierraLeone Hofstra 089 between 1934 and 1936 date QS:P,+1934-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P131
Sjoerd Hofstra · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗

SierraLeone Hofstra 090 — SierraLeone Hofstra 090 between 1934 and 1936 date QS:P,+1934-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P131
Sjoerd Hofstra · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗

SierraLeone Hofstra 091 — SierraLeone Hofstra 091 between 1934 and 1936 date QS:P,+1934-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P131
Sjoerd Hofstra · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗

SierraLeone Hofstra 092 — SierraLeone Hofstra 092 between 1934 and 1936 date QS:P,+1934-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P131
Sjoerd Hofstra · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗

SierraLeone Hofstra 152 — SierraLeone Hofstra 152 1934
Sjoerd Hofstra · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗

SierraLeoneP008 — SierraLeoneP008 1910s date QS:P,+1910-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
Lisk-Carew Brothers, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Copyright Sierra Leone: photographs: 50 years after publication. See http://www.sierra-leone.org/Laws/2011-08.pdf ( · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗