Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: DAVIS, Griffith J. "Griff"
Event Date: ca. 1955
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.060486

Inscriptions:
recto, handwritten in orange pencil: [horizontal line along bottom quarter of image with four vertical lines going down to bottom edge of image]; Verso, handwritten in pencil: Liberia / Welfare; handwritten in pencil: Maternity Hospital at Kakata / ((Liberia)); stamped in blue ink, rectangle border: EYE MAGAZINE / PHOTO NO [dotted line] [hash symbol] 50 [handwritten in pencil / STORY [dotted line] Childbirth in Jungle [handwritten in pencil]; ISSUE [dotted line] Sept [handwritten in pencil] / PAGE [dotted line] 43 [handwritten in pencil]; stamped in black ink: [star symbol] / Credit:: / GRIFF DAVIS / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; handwritten in pencil: I 161-10; handwritten in black ink: At Kataka [sic] is no “”delivery room”” / a sheet around a bed – a sign “”LABOR””- / that is all the available privacy.

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