2-715-119 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Building colonies on the African coast, 1 January 1683, (1936). 'Errichtung Von Kolonien An Der Afrikanischen Küste, 1 Januar 1683'. Prussian explorer Major Otto Friedrich von der Groeben (1657-1728) established the German settlement of Fort Groß Friedrichsburg on the West African coast at what is now Princes Town or Pokesu in Ghana. From "Bilder Deutscher Geschichte", (Pictures of German History), No.12, cigarette card album. [Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Altona-Bahrenfeld, Hamburg, Germany, 1936]