National Museum in Monrovia

Town plan drawn and laid out by Jehudi Ashmun. From: African Repository, Vol. VI (March 1830), end piece.

The president's official residence. Ashmun street, looking east.

Photograph of pupils with teaching staff of the former Liberia College and his excellency, Garretson Wilmot Gibson, former president of Liberia and former president of Liberia College sited in the center. He also served as secretary of education from 1932-1943.

Micat Photo. Sande coming out, Loma

MONROVIA SEEN FROM THE MESURADO RIVER

Mrs. Jennil G. Sharp's school. St. Paul River

National Independence day celebrations

Photograph of pupils with teaching staff of the former Liberia College and his excellency, Garretson Wilmot Gibson, former president of Liberia and former president of Liberia College sited in the center. He also served as secretary of education from 1932-1943.

Providence Island Opposite Monrovia

Pupils and teaching staff of Bromley Mission School. Montserrado County.

Inaugural parade along Broad Street in January, 1944 at the installation of President William V.S. Tubman. From: Henry S/ Villard, "Rubber Cushioned Liberia,". The National Geographic Magazine, XCII (1948), page 206

Family portrait of the Tubman family before William V.S. Tubman became President of Liberia. Standing (L-R): Mansfield Yancy, Mrs. Fred Gibson; Seated (L-R): A. Glenn Tubman, President Tubman's brother; Elizabeth Barnes Tubman, President Tubman's mother; Mrs. Araminta Dent Tubman, the President's first wife, and President Tubman. The empty chair belongs to President Tubman's father, who was deceased.

Ashmun Street in the middle 1880's. From Amanda Smith, An Autobiography (Chicago 1893), opposite page 338

Ashmun Street in the middle 1880's. From Amanda Smith, An Autobiography (Chicago 1893), opposite page 338.

An artist's conception of Liberia College. The engraving is dated 1861. From Edith Holden, Blyden of Liberia (New York, 1966), page 416.

An aerial view of Monrovia in the early 1950's

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