Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: DAVIS, Griffith J. "Griff"
Event Date: ca. 1950
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.060579

Inscriptions:
recto, handwritten in black pencil: Agriculture [underlined]; handwritten in orange pencil: Chicken / LIBERIA; verso, handwritten in pencil: 6; handwritten in pencil: Liberia / agriculture; stamped in blue ink: [star symbol] / Credit:: / GRIFF DAVIS / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; handwritten in pencil: 251-3 / I; handwritten in pencil: Liberia [circled]; adhered typed label: Portable chicken coop is common in rural areas Village folk / carry chickens to farm with them They turn them loose during / day to feed on whatever they can find on farm At nightfall / chickens return to coops and await to be brought back to village

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