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Object Number 2004.24.8760
Display Title Backyards of Monrovia
Descriptions
Object Description Back yards of Monrovia. Africa, Liberia. George Schwab, 1929-30
Subject
  • Landscape
  • Architecture
  • House
  • Ethnographic
  • Backyard
  • Rural
Department Photographic
Date 1929
Artist George Schwab
Culture
  • Peripheral Mande
  • Kru
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Liberia / <State> / <County> / Monrovia
Dimensions Overall: 7.62 x 10.16 cm (3 x 4 in.)

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Old house and new - Monrovia
2004.24.8763 Old house and new - Monrovia
Monrovia
Old house - Monrovia
2004.24.8764 Old house - Monrovia
Monrovia
Old house and new - Monrovia
2004.24.8762 Old house and new - Monrovia
Monrovia
Old house of Monrovia
2004.24.8761 Old house of Monrovia
Monrovia
St. Mark's P.E. Church (the Church of Liberia)
2004.24.8765 St. Mark's P.E. Church (the Church of Liberia)
Monrovia
Monarovian street
2004.24.8788 Monarovian street
Monrovia
Men drying yarn
2004.24.8767 Men drying yarn
Liberia
Buzi man
2004.24.8768 Buzi man
Liberia
This hole is the property of the American Colonization Society
2004.24.8783 This hole is the property of the American Colonization Society
Monrovia
Front and Curley streets - grass growing
2004.24.8785 Front and Curley streets - grass growing
Monrovia
View of the President's Mansion, looking up Broad St.
2004.24.8784 View of the President's Mansion, looking up Broad St.
Monrovia
Island where first colonists landed
2004.24.8787 Island where first colonists landed
Monrovia