Subject: Environment - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: 32 images showing daily life in one of the Volta River Authority (VRA) resettlement communities; Three portraits of men standing in front of one of the VRA residences (35 images total)
Date:: ~1957-1978
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bell, Willis E.
Collection:: Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)

Description:: 14 images of a community submerged in water after the flooding of the Volta River basin upon the completion of Akosombo Dam; Four images of a man paddling a canoe; Two images of a factory; Seven images of engineers with greasy hands, working on a machine; One portrait of an engineer; Five images of an engineer holding a piece of machinery; One unidentifiable image (34 images total)
Date:: 1965
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bell, Willis E.
Collection:: Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)

Description:: 27 aerial images of communities submerged in water during the building of the Akosombo Dam; 3 aerial images of the Volta River Authority resettlement communities. (30 images total)
Date:: ~1961-1965
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bell, Willis E.
Collection:: Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)

Description:: Seven exterior images of the residence of the Ambassador of Denmark, The Royal Danish Embassy; Two interior images of furnished rooms inside the Danish Embassy. (12 images total)
Date:: ~1957-1978
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bell, Willis E.
Collection:: Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)

Description:: 14 exterior images of the Accra International Airport, now the Kotoka International Airport (14 images total)
Date:: ~1957-1978
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bell, Willis E.
Collection:: Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)

Description:: 35 images of the flooded vegetation in the Volta River basin, after the flooding of the region after the completion of Akosombo Dam. (35 images total)
Date:: 1965
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bell, Willis E.
Collection:: Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)

Description:: Five exterior images of Fort Amsterdam at Abandze in the Central Region; Three images of a female model in a hand embroidery stitched boubou, posing at the Fort Amsterdam. (8 images total)
Date:: ~1957-1978
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bell, Willis E.
Collection:: Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)

Description:: Nine images of the tomb of Dr Hideyo Noguchi at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. He was a Japanese bacteriologist and pathologist who died of yellow fever, a disease on which he was conducting medical research in 1928; One portrait of a man in a short-sleeved linen shirt, smiling; 12 images showing daily activities in a part of the central district in Accra; Eight exterior images of buildings in Accra; One image of a young boy with two dogs in a backyard. (32 images total)
Date:: ~1957-1978
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bell, Willis E.
Collection:: Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)

Description:: 11 images of the exterior of a residence in Accra; Three images of two children playing on a swing; One exterior image of a flat; Three images of three men playing a board game under a tree; Six exterior shots of state flats and other buildings in Accra. (35 images total)
Date:: ~1957-1978
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bell, Willis E.
Collection:: Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)

Description:: Eight images of a man roofing a building with thatch in northern Ghana; Eight images of young girl and other children standing on ladder placed against a house, the ladder is used to climb onto the roof of the building which serves as an extension of the building; Five images of a girl in a tree; Five images of livestock and ducks behind a house; Six images of a hand-fitted pump in a community in the northern part of Ghana. (36 images total)
Date:: ~1957-1978
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bell, Willis E.
Collection:: Willis E. Bell Photographic Print Archive (1950s-1970s)

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