Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: DAVIS, Griffith J. "Griff"
Event Date: ca. 1957
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.060502

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscriptions]; verso, handwritten black ink: 3-11x13 (same size 296-12) / 3-8x10 SW glossies; handwritten in pencil: City / Liberia / people / Child; adhered typed label: The “small boy” is an indispensable lad in Monrovia He totes / the water and runs the errands New waterworks system will soon / replace him or lighten his burdens; handwritten in pencil: 296-1 / I; stamped in blue ink: [star symbol] / Credit:: / GRIFF DAVIS / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK

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