Griffith J. Davis Photographs and Films, 1947-1991 and undated

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Griffith J. Davis Photographs and Films, 1947-1991 and undated

Griffith J. Davis Photographs and Films, 1947-1991 and undated

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Photojournalist, diplomat, and film maker from Atlanta, Georgia. Collection dates from 1949-1991 and comprises photographs, negatives, and contact prints and related materials assembled by African American photojournalist Griff Davis, concerning Langston Hughes, Hale Woodruff, and Charles Alston, all prominent African American writers, poets, or artists, and the Palmer Memorial Institute, a private junior and senior high school for African Americans in Sedalia, N.C. The audiovisual components include home movies and nine color and black and white 16mm films dating from the fifties, taken in Liberia by Davis during part of William V.S. Tubman's presidency. Films depict a wide range of subjects, activities and events, including the country's people, industry, leaders, and rural life. Other Griff Davis images in the collection are found in an album entitled "Progress in Liberia, November 1949 - February 1950," containing twenty large black and white gelatin silver prints with typed captions; the album was assembled to promote a partnership between the government of Liberia and Liberia Mining Company. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.

6.0 Linear Feet; 476 Items

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