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Photograph of a kerosene fire on Government Wharf at [Freetown], Sierra Leone

GB1752.UAC/1/11/9/12/151 | UAC Public Relations Department.UAC Public Relations Department: Photograph Albums.UAC Public Relations Department: Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone Album. | A crowd of people is gathered looking along a road towards rising black smoke emanating from near a hut with a sign, S L G R Wharf and Enquiry Office. The people are standing on and surrounded by boxes, crates and sacks. To the left of the fire is a row of warehouses. African men are carrying wooden crates and European/African men pushing a metal crate.