Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: DAVIS, Griffith J. "Griff"
Event Date: 1949-1957
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.060546

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscriptions]; verso, handwritten in pencil: 50; handwritten in pencil: Liberia; adhered typed label: Part of waterside market at Monrovia where native people buy / poles and thatch to strengthen their huts Stores range from / such as this for the primitive Liberian to the supermarket for / the most civilized; handwritten in pencil: 150-3 / I; stamped in black ink: [star symbol] / Credit:: / GRIFF DAVIS / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; handwritten in pencil: FM [circled]

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