Men unloading railing iron at the port of Laurenço Marques, now Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. The railings were carried on the S.S. Goorkha, a transport ship that regularly made voyages to Africa

Date:: 1910

Reference:: RBO01/09/OP04869

Type:: Photograph (Gelatine Print)

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Description

This print, and OP04868, are affixed to the back of the card mount of OP04867, and so can be found in the Cornwall archive box of the Early Photographic Print Collection.

The handwritten caption on the card mount underneath this photograph reads 'Natives landing railing iron at Lorenço Marques. S.S. Goorkha. 1910. Delagoa Bay. East Coast Africa'.

Content

This is part of the Series: RBO01/09 Early Photographic Print Collection: Cornwall and Isles of Scilly; within the Collection: RBO01 Early Photographic Print Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive