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.2005.060586

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscriptions]; verso, handwritten in pencil: 50; handwritten in black ink: 8 x 8 [underlined] / 8 x 8 sw glossies [underlined]; handwritten in pencil: 95-10 / III; handwritten in pencil: Liberia / Homes; stamped in blue ink: [star symbol] / Credit:: / GRIFF DAVIS / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; adhered typed label: The Old South plantation houses with high angle roofs and / dormer windows and long front column were transplanted / by the freed slavesto [sic] the early houses they built in Liberia

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