Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: MERRITT III, Vernon
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.243579

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, handwritten in pencil: OBERLIN STUDENTS STUDYING + READING ON PORCH OF / OLD SHACK AROSS FROM CHURCH. / THIS SHACK,, INHABITED BY 3 BOYS IS FIRED AT WITH / RIFLES,, SHOTGUNS AND FIRECRACKERS ALMOST EVERY / night.; stamped in black ink: [star symbol] / Credit::; handwritten in blue ink: VERNON MERRiTT; stamped in black ink; from BLACK STAR; handwritten in blue ink: 14; handwritten in pencil: L- JOE GROSS (DARK SWEATER + GLASSES) / (OBERLIN) / C- DAVID WELCH (W. OF MASS.) / GLASSES / R+- JERRY VON KORFF / (OBERLIN); handwritten in pencil: 148-889;

Tagasauris Keywords: 3 people; 3 people; Architecture; Chair; Day; Face; Full-Length Portrait; Group; Landscape; Male; No Photostyle; Outdoors; Panoramic; Porch; Religion and belief; Rural; Tree; Young adult
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: CIVIL RIGHTS / CHURCH REBUILDING MISSISSIPPI
Retouching: N