Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: DAVIS, Griffith J. "Griff"
Event Date: ca. 1950
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.207347

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscriptions]; Verso, stamped in black: [star symbol] / Credit:: / GRIFF DAVIS / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; handwritten in pencil: 146; adhered typed label: One of official palace photographers takes closeup of the Emperor. Palace photographers generally develop most of Duke’s pictures and / give him instructions on his picture-taking.

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: PERSONALITIES / HAILE SELASSIE
Retouching: N