Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: LANKS, HERBERT CHARLES
Event Date: 1942-10-12
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.001362

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: Bahamas / People; typed label: One of today’s few local inhab- / itants of the island of San / Salvador, Bahamas, where Columbus / made his first landfall on Am- / erican soil, Oct. 12, 1492; stamped: Credit: [star shape] / from BLACK STAR; handwritten: Herbert Lanks 38940

Tagasauris Keywords: 1 person; Bahamas; Close up; Day; Hat; Head and shoulders; Male; Male; Mid adult; Outdoors; Smile; Straw hat; Working class
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BAHAMAS / PEOPLE, MEN
Retouching: N