FA 356Homogeneous collection of early 20th century photos of French Guinea. Shown are local villages, village destroyed by Sekou Toure, Kourousa dancers, trailleurs on the Cavalla river, village hut construction, inspecting trailleurs, local hunting, a local female referred to as a “chief porter”, embarking for Fort Binger, raising the French flag in a remote village of the “terabos” people, Chief Yau Kou, village mosque at Kau Kau, clearing land to build Fort Binger, Kofo types, on the Niandon River, Tabetuos types in a Neka village, unusual village mosque, named trailleurs aboard a ship, manioc culture, raising the flag at Fort Binger, entering a fortified village, a convoy in the bush, porters, submission of local chiefs, much more. 111 photos, many captioned. I believe the photographer was a colonial administrator assigned to the construction of Fort Binger (I can find no mention of this Fort online, though it was named after famed explorer Louis-Gustave Binger (see below)).
Price: $1800.00
Note from Wikipedia: Louis-Gustave Binger 14 October 1856 – 10 November 1936) was a French officer and explorer who claimed the Côte d'Ivoire for France. Binger was born at Strasbourg. In 1887 he traveled from Senegal up to the Niger River, arriving at Grand Bassam in 1889. During this expedition he discovered that the Mountains of Kong did not exist. He described this journey in his work Du Niger au golfe de Guinée par le pays de Kong et le Mossi (From the Niger to the Gulf of Guinea though the land of the Kong and the Mossi) (1891). In 1892 he returned to the Guinea Coast to superintend the forming of the boundaries between the British and French colonies. In 1893 Binger was appointed governor of the Côte d'Ivoire, where he remained until 1898. He returned to France that year, to an administrative post in Paris at the French Colonial Ministry. In 1899 the Royal Geographical Society awarded him their Founder's Medal for his exploratory work. He died at L'Isle-Adam, Île-de-France, France and was buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris. The city of Bingerville in the Ivory Coast is named after him.
