Los 4099

Togo
The Bremen factory and the German mercantile community in Little Popo (Aného), Togo

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Auktionsdatum 29.11.2025

Photographer unknown. The Bremen factory and the German mercantile community in Little Popo (Aného), Togo. 1882-84. 4 albumen prints. Each circa 14 x 21 cm. Each mounted to board (23,5 x 29,5 cm), 3 with original captions in ink in German on the mounts.

These photographs were taken in Little Popo (present-day Aného, Togo), then the principal port on the so-called ‘Slave Coast’ between French-controlled Dahomey (now Benin) and the British Gold Coast (now Ghana), prior to the region’s formal annexation by Germany in 1884. They prominently feature the trading premises of the Bremen firm F.M. Vietor. One image shows its agents alongside representatives of other German trading houses active in Little Popo, all identified in the accompanying caption. Several of these men - including F. Reimann, H.F.A. Eccarius, and Heinrich Randad - were involved in negotiating trade agreements with local chiefs from 1882, laying the groundwork for German colonial expansion. Randad would later be appointed the first commissioner of what became known as the Togoland Protectorate. – Boards with foxing, a few prints slightly faded, two with small white spots, otherwise in good condition.