Cotonou Gallery

Film - "The Comedians" Film Set - Cotonou, Dahomey, West Africa

Actress Elizabeth Taylor, with a Dahomeyan girl, in Cotonou, Dahomey, West Africa. The child listens to a section of dialogue made by Elizabeth Taylor's husband Richard Burton. They are making "The Comedians", which is scripted by Graham Greene from his best-selling novel

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126555 1, 1960s, 1967, 60s, African, Benin, Britaincollectionfeatureyear1967, Britainimagescollectionmove, Child, Elizabethtaylorcollection, Printstoreok, Printstoreok1, Sixties

Landing of the Senegalese Troops at the New Wharf in Cotonou, from 'Le Petit Journal'

XIR246048 Landing of the Senegalese Troops at the New Wharf in Cotonou, from 'Le Petit Journal', 21st May 1892 (colour litho) by Meyer, Henri (1844-99); Private Collection; (add.info.: Debarquement a Kotonou des Troupes Senegalaises; le nouveau wharf;); French, out of copyright

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Arrival, Arriving, Barrels, Benin, Dahomey, Harbour, Labour, Natives, Port, Senagalais, Senegal, Soldiers, Troops, Troupe, Troupes, Uniform, Unloading, West African

Benin - Scenes & Places

The Republic of Benin (formerly Dahomey) - places depicted on the card are capital city Porto-Novo, a house of the indigenous population (one of whom is pictured in the inset oval) and a view of the banks of the River Oueme (which flows into the Atlantic Ocean at Cotonou). Date: circa 1910s

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Africa, African, Banks, Benin, Dahomey, Headdresswest, Home, House, Hut, Indigenous, Novo, Oueme, Population, Porto, River, River Bank