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Independence Arch

MLA citation style
“Independence Arch”. no date. Teachers For West Africa Program Records, 1961-2020, 1963.
APA citation style
Independence Arch. (1963). Independence Arch. Teachers For West Africa Program Records, 1961-2020. Retrieved from https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A277445
Chicago citation style
“Independence Arch”. Teachers For West Africa Program Records, 1961-2020, Elizabethtown College - Teachers for West Africa Program Collection, 1963. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A277445.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.

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Title

Independence Arch

Subject

Monuments
Architecture
Teachers for West Africa Program
Teachers, Foreign

Description

A large arch with a building held in between the two sides is seen in the center of the image. The Black Star Gate is seen in the background. Both monuments are in Independence or Black Star Square in Accra and were built to celebrate Ghana's independence from Great Britain in 1957. The Square was completed in 1961 to conincide with the state visit of Queen Elizabeth II.

Date

1963

Location Covered

Accra (Ghana)

Time Period Covered

1963

Type

Image

Original Format

Slides

Digital Format

image/tiff

Identifier

twap0087

Source

Teachers for West Africa Program Records, 1961-2020

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/

Contact

Hess Archives and Special Collections: https://www.etown.edu/library/archive. For all other uses see the Hess Archives Reproduction Policies and Fee Schedule: https://www.etown.edu/library/archives/files/reproduction_fee_schedule.pdf.

Contributing Institution

Elizabethtown College

Sponsorship

This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.