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.2005.060544

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscriptions]; verso, adhered typed label: The early settlement 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 Americas / 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.; handwritten in pencil: Liberia / People / Children; stamped in black ink: [star symbol] / Credit:: / [handwritten in black ink] Griff Davis / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; stamped in black ink: 1 214; handwritten in blue ink: EAtING NAtIVe Rice – the staple item in Liberian diet. / Too much Rice [ampersand] too little protein is oNe ReAsoN / so many of these bAbies die.

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