Colony and protectorate · 1896–1960
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The Cotton Tree, Bungalow Train 1910s
The Mountain Railway's 3.30 p.m. train waiting at Cotton Tree Station, photographed by Freetown's own Lisk-Carew Brothers studio.
Lisk-Carew Brothers, Freetown · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Outside the booking office 7 Nov 1942
John Atherton · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Congo Bridge, Mountain Railway 1910s
Lisk-Carew Brothers · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Cotton Tree Station 1915
The Mountain Railway's “Bungalow Train” at its city-centre station.
Sir Kenneth James Beatty · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Hammock Bridge, Sierra Leone Lisk-Carew postcard, c. 1905–1920s
Di titul we i bin gɛt: SierraLeoneP015
Lisk-Carew Brothers, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Copyright Sierra Leone: photographs: 50 years after publication. See https://www.sierra-leone.org/Laws/2011-08.pdf · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Moa river bridge, Sierra Leone Lisk-Carew postcard, c. 1905–1920s
Di titul we i bin gɛt: SierraLeoneP016
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 · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
A bridge built in the local way, Taiama, 1930–31 1930
Di titul we i bin gɛt: Bridge, landscape
Bolinder, Gustaf Wilhelm · Public domain (CC0) · Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
A bridge, Kissi country, 1930–31 1930
Di titul we i bin gɛt: Bridge
Bolinder, Gustaf Wilhelm · Public domain (CC0) · Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Fishing boats in Freetown harbour (Lisk-Carew postcard) 1930
Di titul we i bin gɛt: Boat, harbour
Lisk-Carew, Alphonso · Public domain (CC0) · Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
A hammock bridge of lianas (Lisk-Carew postcard) 1930
Di titul we i bin gɛt: Lian, suspension bridge, bridge
Lisk-Carew, Alphonso · Public domain (CC0) · Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
A rope bridge on a forest path (Lisk-Carew postcard) 1930
Di titul we i bin gɛt: Bridge
Lisk-Carew, Alphonso · Public domain (CC0) · Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Pilot Officer J H Smythe of Sierra Leone, a newly-qualified navigator, being instructed in the use of the sextant by an instructor at No. 11 1939–45
Royal Air Force official photographer, No. 11 OTU · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Wiv shutul we tan lɛk bot, Sinkunia Collected by 1957
Di titul we i bin gɛt: Skyttel
Public domain (CC0) · Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
German cargo ship MV Vogelsberg when unloading bags and general cargo in the port of Freetown - 1958 1958
Buonasera · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Bowl, vessel Collected 1930–31
Public domain (CC0) · Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Wooden bowl with a lid and a burnt-in pattern Collected 1930–31
Di titul we i bin gɛt: Vessels, bowl, paint
Public domain (CC0) · Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Bottle, vessel Collected 1930–31
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Plaited basket bottle, Krim Collected 1930–31
Di titul we i bin gɛt: Bottle, vessel
Public domain (CC0) · Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Freetown-Railway c. 1900
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