Photo Gallery

26 DAY, ZORZOR

1963 NATIONAL UNIFICATION COUNCIL, VOINJAMA, WESTERN PROVINCE. The Western Province became Lofa County in 1964.

CAPE MOUNT'S WORLD FAMOUS LAKE PISO

Devil Dancers

ENTRANCE TO PORO GROUNDS, LOFA

ZORZOR MARKET GOODS ON DISPLAY

HOLY CROSS MISSSION (EPISCOPAL) BOLAHUN on the Sierra Leone Border. People from this very remote area sound more Sierra Leonean than Liberian.

KORANIC CLASS, LOFA

LOFA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL (RICE) COOPERATIVE, 1970s Breadbasket of the nation, Lofa consistently won the annual OPERATION PRODUCTION prize for rice growth under the Tubman Administration, and the RALLY TIME agricultural production prize under President Tolbert.

MAKING COUNTRY CLOTH

MANDINGO TRADERS

MENDE CEREMONIAL MASK

PORO INITIATES

PORTUGUESE MAP SHOWING PROFILE OF "CABO MONTE." Source: HERITAGE LIBERIA/Sylomun Weah photo

PRESIDENT TUBMAN ARRIVING IN TOWN

ROBERTSPORT

ROBERTSPORT captured by Italian visitors. Michele Varaschini Family photo via C. Alake Williams

ROBERTSPORT MANSION

ROBERTSPORT ROAD JUNCTION

SANDE CEREMONY, LOFA

SANDE GATHERING, LOFA

SANDE GRADUATION CEREMONY

SANDE GRADUATION CEREMONY 2

SANDE GRADUATION CEREMONY 3

SANDE INITIATES

SUSPENSION BRIDGE

Vai town; the caption with this photograph is not readable anymore. It starts with 'Vai' then 'Century, from H.H.' and ends with '1906: page 147'

The Dei King and his family. 1892

TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE

TRADITIONAL WESTERN SUDAN STYLE

TRADITIONAL WESTERN SUDAN STYLE 2

TUBMAN CENTER FOR AFRICAN CULTURE, ROBERTSPORT

TUBMANBURG, BOMI COUNTY MOSQUE

TUBMANBURG, SEAT OF BOMI COUNTY

very rare image-'Hidden in the low light of the forest is the entrance to the Porohwoods. (very rare image.)' — in Liberia.

VICTORIA E. JELLEMOH GRIMES

VILLAGE HOUSES

VILLAGE HOUSES 2

VOINJAMA

YOUNG MEN WEAVE CLOTH ON A LOOM

ZORZOR MARKET

ZORZOR MARKET 2

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

Currency

1847 FLAG COMMITTEE, seven seamstresses headed by SUSANAH LEWIS, wife of leading founder JOHN N. LEWIS.

A. DORIS BANKS HENRIES, scholar, educator, author

AGNES NEBO VON BALLMOOS, Musicologist, Chairwoman, University of Liberia Music Department

ANGIE ELIZABETH BROOKS RANDOLPH, First woman lawyer, Diplomat, 54th UN General Assembly President, Associate Justice.

ANTOINETTE PADMORE TUBMAN, probably the most popular and beloved First Lady ever.

ARCHEL BERNARD

CASSELIA LILES STEWART, Research Counsel to Chief Justice JAMES A. A. PIERRE, Probate Judge, Mediator with the Carter Center Conflict Resolution Program

CECELIA COOPER KING

CORINNA HILTON VAN EE, Educator, Civic Leader TLCAfrica.com photo

CYVETTE GIBSON, MAYOR OF PAYNESVILLE "We are so proud to see Africa 2.0 Liberia Chapter Head and Mayor of Paynesville (the largest district in Liberia), Cyvette Gibson in the Feb/March issue of Forbes Woman Africa! It is through Cyvette's tenacity, dedication and leadership that Liberia was declared Ebola-free in late 2015! Read more about Liberia's success story in the latest issue of Forbes Woman Africa-out now! " -AFRICA 2.0

DR. MARY ANTOINETTE BROWN SHERMAN, Educator, Author, President of the University of Liberia

ELLEN SANDIMANIE, first woman Mayor of Monrovia, with PRESIDENT TOLBERT JET Magazine, 1974

EMMA SHANNON WALSER, First woman Circuit Court Judge

EUGENIA SIMPSON COOPER, Educator, Public official, civic leader, Founder, Eugenia Simpson Cooper Business School, which trained hundreds of typists, secretaries, stenographers, bookkeepers, etc. Judy Lynn Thompson Koci photo

EUGENIA STEVENSON, Diplomat

GRAND MARCH AT INAUGURAL BALL, 1952

GROUP OF LEADING WOMEN

JANE WARING ROBERTS, WIFE OF J. J. ROBERTS

JEANINE MILLY COOPER, UN OCHA Representative to the African Union

KORTO MOMOLU, FASHION DESIGNER MODELS

KORTO WILLIAMS, Director, ActionAid Liberia

MAHALIA JACKSON

MALINDA JACKSON PARKER, ENTERTAINER AND LEGISLATOR

MIATTA FAHNBULLEH, entertainer, activist

MOTHER AND DAUGHTERS

ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR

Past Grand Patrons of the Order of the Eastern Star of Liberia

RACHEL JOHNSON MASSAQUOI, Businesswoman, Civic leader

RUTH PERRY, Public Servant, Acting president of Liberia

SANDE INITIATES AT 1963 NATIONAL UNIFICATION COUNCIL, VOINJAMA

SUAKOKO, Paramount Chief

VAI WOMAN IN TRADITIONAL GARB

VAT TUBMAN'S ADORING FANS, 1960s

VICTORIA ELIZABETH JELLEMOH CHEESEMAN GRIMES

WOMEN AT 1952 INAUGURAL FESTIVITIES

WOMEN ON PARADE, 1950s

WOMEN'S GROUP CONVENTION IN HARPER

YAHNE SANGARE (Jeanie Cecelia King), Journalist, Model, activist

YAHNE SANGARE