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Griffith Davis Photograph Collection, Donna M. Wells, Melvin Barrolle, Meaghan Alston, Jaclynn Martin
Griffith Davis Photograph Collection, Donna M. Wells, Melvin Barrolle, Meaghan Alston, Jaclynn Martin
Prints and Photographs Department
In 1981 Griffith Davis donated to the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center 7,000 photos and negatives taken in Liberia. It was the largest pictorial donation given to the Center. The collection dates between 1949 and 1974 but the bulk of the collection covers 1949 through 1952-the years of his travels to Liberia. The photographs are comprised of a rich variety of individuals including, Emperor Haile Selassie, Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah, Liberian President, William V.S. Tubman, missionaries Dr. Albert Schweitzer and Dr. George Harley, Howard University President Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, and general shots of Liberia documenting the country’s social and economic change.