Ivory Coast: a boy with a handmade scooter. Photograph, 1910/1930 (?).

1910-1930

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 15.5 x 11.1 cm

The "scooter" in embryo - four short round logs and a branch or two have enabled this dusky young gentleman to make a useful if primitive vehicle with which to amuse himself in his native wilds on the Ivory co[a]st of East Africa Lettering: photograph verso bears stamp reading: "The Central Press Photos., Ltd., copyright [...]" Lettering: printed on sheet attached to photograph verso

Wellcome Collection 580030i