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Liberian Photograph Collections

About Liberian Photograph Collections

The Liberian Collections Photograph Collection holds over 30,000 images from the 1940s to the present. Photographers include Liberian and American government officials and employees, private citizens, missionaries, development workers, concessions employees and ethnographic researchers.

As part of Indiana University's renowned Archives of Traditional Music (ATM), the IU Liberian Collections now enhances the ATM's rich holdings of audio and videotaped recordings of Liberian music and dance. The Liberian Collections include historical and ethnographic documents, newspapers, government publications, books, journals, dissertations, maps, slides, negatives, photographs, microfilms, audio & video tapes, artifacts and memorabilia.

For more information, visit the Indiana University Liberian Collections.

Collections

Frederick D McEvoy Photograph Collection

This is the collection of anthropologist Fred McEvoy’s photographs from his 1967-1968 research among Sabo labor migrants in southeastern Liberia. McEvoy's major research sites were the Sabo home area in Webbo District of Grand Gedeh County (now in River Gee County) and the Firestone Company's Cavalla Plantation in Maryland County.

Willie A. and Lucile S. Whitten Photography Collection

The Willie A. and Lucille S. Whitten Photography Collection contains nearly 700 images reproduced from slides taken during the Whittens’ stays in Liberia in the 1960s and 1970s. A native of Mississippi, Mr. Whitten first traveled to Liberia in 1963 on a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) project while completing his graduate studies in adult education. Whitten conducted research for his doctoral dissertation in Lofa County, receiving a Doctorate in Education from Indiana University in 1966. He continued as a USAID education officer in Liberia during the late 1960s. He returned to Liberia in the late 1970s and early 1980s, before and after the violent overthrow of the William Tolbert presidency in the military coup led by Samuel Doe in 1980. The collection includes photographs of the Liberian towns and schools Whitten visited in his USAID work, photographs of Liberian government and cultural events, and family photographs.

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Collection
- McEvoy [215]
- Whitten [669]
Date
- 1960-1969 [705]
  
  1961 [1]
  
  1963 [66]
  
  1964 [251]
  
  1965 [111]
  
  1966 [52]
  
  1967 [223]
  
  1968 [1]
- 1970-1979 [99]
  
  1973 [1]
  
  1977 [28]
  
  1978 [70]
Topic
- Houses [144]
- Children [105]
- Families [99]
- Government employees [96]
- Crowds [79]
- Guests [70]
- Automobiles [64]
- Parades & processions [63]
- Ceremonial dancers [62]
- Thatched roofs [62]
- Adults [13]
- Aerial views [44]
- Agricultural facilities [15]
- Agricultural laborers [1]
- Airplanes [13]
- Airports [5]
- Animals [11]
- Arrivals & departures [35]
- Arts & crafts [5]
- Automobiles [64]
- Banana plants [5]
- Barrels [1]
- Baskets [1]
- Beaches [27]
- Boatmen [3]
- Boats [8]
- Bodies of water [33]
- Body marking [4]
- Boys [3]
- Braids (Hairdressing) [1]
- Bridges [13]
- Building construction [13]
- Buildings [2]
- Cats [1]
- Ceremonial dancers [62]
- Ceremonial objects [2]
- Children [105]
- Children playing adults [1]
- Children's playhouses [1]
- Churches [21]
- City & town life [57]
- Cityscapes [55]
- Clearing of land [11]
- Clerks [1]
- Climbing [2]
- Coastlines [2]
- Coconuts [1]
- Construction equipment [1]
- Construction workers [3]
- Contact sheets [5]
- Cooking utensils [1]
- County government [2]
- Crowds [79]
- Dancers [6]
- Death & burial [1]
- Deer [1]
- Delegations [2]
- Dirt roads [3]
- Dogs [2]
- Domestic life [1]
- Driveways [1]
- Eating & drinking [1]
- Families [99]
- Farmers [2]
- Farming [2]
- Fire [10]
- Fishermen [3]
- Food processing [8]
- Forests [52]
- Fourth of July celebrations [6]
- Funeral rites & ceremonies [28]
- Garages [1]
- Gardens [11]
- Gazelles [1]
- Girls [1]
- Government employees [96]
- Government facilities [36]
- Grains [1]
- Graves [6]
- Group portraits [2]
- Guests [70]
- Handicraft [15]
- Harvesting [1]
- Helicopters [9]
- Hippopotamuses [1]
- Houses [144]
- Hunting [2]
- Knives [3]
- Labor [1]
- Labor housing [10]
- Laborers [27]
- Loggers [1]
- Luggage [1]
- Lumber [1]
- Lying in state [2]
- Maintenance & repair [3]
- Maps [3]
- Markets [13]
- Masks [1]
- Mechanics (Persons) [2]
- Meetings [13]
- Men [7]
- Migrant agricultural laborers [28]
- Migrant laborers [1]
- Monkeys [13]
- Monuments & memorials [13]
- Music festival [1]
- Musical instruments [2]
- Musicians [18]
- Oceans [2]
- Office buildings [1]
- Palms [24]
- Parades & processions [63]
- Parties [28]
- Paths [2]
- Paydays [3]
- People [6]
- Performance art [30]
- Performances [1]
- Plants [9]
- Play (Recreation) [5]
- Porters [2]
- Portraits [3]
- Pottery [1]
- Rain [2]
- Rattan palms [2]
- Receptions [5]
- Rice [6]
- Rites & ceremonies [31]
- Rivers [6]
- Road construction [4]
- Roads [34]
- Rubber [1]
- Rubber plantations [28]
- Rubber plants [4]
- Rubber trees [9]
- Rural schools [2]
- Saw [1]
- School children [1]
- Schools [51]
- Sculpture [2]
- Selling [1]
- Servants [8]
- Shade [1]
- Shelters [1]
- Snakes [4]
- Spectators [15]
- Spiritual leaders [5]
- Sports & recreation facilities [2]
- Subsistence activities [17]
- Sunrises & sunsets [2]
- Supervisors [2]
- Tapping [3]
- Taxicabs [1]
- Thatched roofs [62]
- Trails & paths [2]
- Translators [1]
- Transportation [1]
- Tree stumps [1]
- Trees [36]
- Tribal chiefs [24]
- Tropical forests [16]
- Trucks [1]
- Universities & colleges [1]
- Vehicles [1]
- Villages [40]
- Weaving [1]
- Women [20]
- Wood carvings [3]
- Woodcutting [2]
- Woodworking [1]
- Yards [1]
- Young adults [1]

Liberian Photograph Collections

About Liberian Photograph Collections

Collections

Frederick D McEvoy Photograph Collection

Willie A. and Lucile S. Whitten Photography Collection

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