Inauguration Album, Republic of Liberia, January 1952 - Page 72

Three columns of printed negative strips with images from Inaugural Ceremonies for the Liberian President. Image descriptions from top to bottom, left to right. Image 1, 7, & 8: Various images of men and women playing instruments while standing in a crowd at an event. The women are playing shekeres and one man is playing an accordion. The women are wearing patterned blouses and matching head wraps. Everyone not playing an instrument is singing or clapping. Image 2: President William Tubman standing in front of a building smoking a cigar. He is standing in the middle of five other people. A striped cloth is hanging over the building entrance. Image 3: Tubman smoking a cigar and talking with a woman standing on the right holding a program. They are standing under a wooden awning with a group of other officials. Image 4: Two unidentified men standing outdoors near a white, wooden billboard. They are looking forward and holding drinks. The man on the left also has a program. Image 5: President Tubman standing with Antoinette Tubman and two other women in front of a group of people. President Tubman is holding his suit jacket in his arm while holding a cigar. Antoinette is standing to the left. They are all looking at the camera. Image 6: President Tubman standing with several women and a group of officials just outside the wooden awning of a building. Tubman is wearing a jacket and facing away from the camera. Image 9 & 10: Various images of a group of unidentified men standing at the top of a rocky hill covered in large boulders. Another man is climbing up the hill. Image 11 & 12: Various images of an unidentified man walking along an open cliffside, possible in a rock quarry. The man is picking up dirt from the ground and looking at it. He is wearing a suit and hat.