Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: DAVIS, Griffith J. "Griff"
Event Date: ca. 1951
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.060469

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscriptions]; verso, handwritten: Liberia Transportation; adhered typed label: The early settlers of freed American Negro slaves which / came to Liberia in 1822 first settled on little island at / Monrovia called Providence Island. Portion of island still / remains today. This island is the equivalent of America's / Plymouth Rock. From here the early colonist carved out the / little West African republic of Liberia. They subdued the / jungle fevers and won out over indigenous tribes which sought / to annihilate them.; stamped in black ink: [star symbol] / Credit:: / GRIFF DAVIS / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; handwritten: 2-9 / III

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: LIBERIA / TRANSPORTATION
Retouching: N