Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: DAVIS, Griffith J. "Griff"
Title: Untitled [Young boy carrying rice, Liberia], 1950
Event Date: 1950-11-11
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 11 x 14 inches; 27.94 x 35.56 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.060581

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: [in black ink] 37-1709; handwritten: [in graphite] CD5098 / LB2032 / CE-2002; handwritten: [in red ink] Liberia / Industry / agric; stamped: [in black ink] 149; stamped and handwritten: [in black ink, grease pencil and graphite] Credit: [black star] / G.D. GRIFF DAVIS / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; handwritten: [in black marker] LIBERIA; handwritten: [in graphite] 459 [underscored] / R-46 [underscored] / 6K [circled] / 18692 [underscored]; stamped: [in black ink] NOV 11 1950; stamped: [in black ink] from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; stamped: [in black ink] LIFE PHOTO / BY; stamped: [in blue ink] 132; handwritten: [in graphite] Country boy / Carrying rice / (staple of diet) / 83.6

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