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.2005.060547

Inscriptions:
recto, in orange pencil: [crop mark along top of print] / [crop mark vertical on right side of print]; verso, handwritten in pencil: City [underlined]; Verso, handwritten in black ink: 3-11x11 [underlined] / 3-8x8 sw glossies [obstructed]; 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 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 / MARKETS
Retouching: N