Photo album - Album photographique colonial – Conakry (Guinée française), ca. 1900 - 1900

Large presentation album with a brown cover, featuring a photo of young women in a medallion on the cover.
Vintage photographic prints from the era, glued onto cardboard.
Various scenes
portraits (women in traditional costume)
landscapes (palm groves, coastal areas)
large outdoor Muslim prayers
port scenes (sailboats, the docks of Conakry)
Urban views (Grand Hotel, colonial buildings, church with missionaries and inhabitants).

40 photos. 41 x 30 cm.

A unique visual testimony from colonial Guinea at the time when Conakry became the capital (1904).
Interest
Very rare: few Bessemon albums survive. Most of his prints are kept in archive collections.
Ethnographic value (costumes, rites, daily life), historical (colonial architecture, urbanization of Conakry).
Scenes of collective prayer and portraits of women in traditional attire.