3-065-576 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Voyage to the Gold Coast of Africa: negro visitors on board the Volta, 1874. 'The voyage to the Gold Coast of West Africa in the mail steam-packet Volta has been accomplished by our Special Artist, Mr. Melton Prior...[who] took the opportunity to sketch a party of the overdressed black ladies and idle gentlemen of African race who came on board the steamer during its stay at Sierra Leone'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.