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Village of mud houses
Children pretending to apply new coat to mud house
Fanti fishing boats on Hoffman River, Harper
Surf boat fishing on Hoffman River, Harper
Labor Village in Division 6

About 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.

For more information, visit the Indiana University Liberian Collections.

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- 1960-1969 [215]
  
  1965 [1]
  
  1966 [52]
  
  1967 [161]
  
  1968 [1]
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- Thatched roofs [62]
- Houses [44]
- Villages [40]
- Children [38]
- Funeral rites & ceremonies [28]
- Migrant agricultural laborers [28]
- Rubber plantations [28]
- Forests [25]
- Ceremonial dancers [24]
- Women [20]
- Adults [13]
- Agricultural laborers [1]
- Automobiles [9]
- Banana plants [4]
- Barrels [1]
- Beaches [3]
- Boatmen [3]
- Boats [4]
- Boys [3]
- Braids (Hairdressing) [1]
- Bridges [2]
- Building construction [13]
- Buildings [2]
- Cats [1]
- Ceremonial dancers [24]
- Children [38]
- Children playing adults [1]
- Children's playhouses [1]
- Churches [3]
- 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 [2]
- Dancers [1]
- Death & burial [1]
- Deer [1]
- Delegations [2]
- Dirt roads [3]
- Dogs [2]
- Domestic life [1]
- Driveways [1]
- Eating & drinking [1]
- Families [5]
- Farmers [2]
- Farming [2]
- Fire [10]
- Fishermen [3]
- Forests [25]
- Funeral rites & ceremonies [28]
- Garages [1]
- Gazelles [1]
- Girls [1]
- Grains [1]
- Graves [3]
- Group portraits [2]
- Harvesting [1]
- Houses [44]
- Hunting [2]
- Knives [3]
- Labor [1]
- Labor housing [10]
- Laborers [3]
- Loggers [1]
- Luggage [1]
- Lumber [1]
- Lying in state [2]
- Maintenance & repair [3]
- Markets [4]
- Masks [1]
- Mechanics (Persons) [2]
- Men [7]
- Migrant agricultural laborers [28]
- Migrant laborers [1]
- Monkeys [3]
- Music festival [1]
- Musical instruments [2]
- Oceans [2]
- Office buildings [1]
- Palms [5]
- Paths [2]
- Paydays [3]
- People [6]
- Performances [1]
- Play (Recreation) [5]
- Porters [2]
- Portraits [3]
- Pottery [1]
- Rain [2]
- Rattan palms [2]
- Receptions [3]
- Rice [6]
- Rites & ceremonies [2]
- Rivers [6]
- Road construction [4]
- Roads [10]
- Rubber [1]
- Rubber plantations [28]
- Rubber trees [8]
- Rural schools [2]
- Saw [1]
- School children [1]
- Schools [1]
- Selling [1]
- Shade [1]
- Shelters [1]
- Spectators [15]
- Subsistence activities [17]
- Supervisors [2]
- Tapping [3]
- Taxicabs [1]
- Thatched roofs [62]
- Trails & paths [2]
- Translators [1]
- Transportation [1]
- Tree stumps [1]
- Trees [2]
- Tropical forests [16]
- Trucks [1]
- Universities & colleges [1]
- Vehicles [1]
- Villages [40]
- Weaving [1]
- Women [20]
- Woodcutting [2]
- Yards [1]
- Young adults [1]

Liberian Collections > Frederick D McEvoy Photograph Collection

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