Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: DAVIS, Griffith J. "Griff"
Event Date: ca. 1953
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.060542

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscriptions]; verso, handwritten in pencil: Liberia / [loss]; stamped in black ink: [star symbol] / Credit:: / GRIFF DAVIS / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; handwritten in red pencil: 27 [circled]; handwritten in pencil: y [circled]; handwritten in blue pencil: A [circled]; handwritten in pencil: C-14 [underlined]; handwritten in pencil: [mark or scribble] [crossed out in red pencil]; handwritten in pencil: 296; handwritten in blue pencil: pg. 23 [underlined]; handwritten in red pencil: [line] 25 1//2 P [line]; adhered typed label: “”Small boys”” are the most indispensable fellows in Liberia – they tote the water and / empty the pots.; handwritten in pencil: 44 [circled]

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