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

GB1752.UAC/1/11/9/12/154 | UAC Public Relations Department.UAC Public Relations Department: Photograph Albums.UAC Public Relations Department: Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone Album. | A crowd of African men are walking up a road on a hill, carrying wooden boxes/crates, and piling them on the roadside. Behind them is a row of warehouses and behind these buildings a plume of black smoke drifting to the left of the image. At the foot of the hill is a row of buildings and behind these the sea. A steam ship is in the image, at sea, to the right.