Inauguration Album, Republic of Liberia, January 1952 - Page 47

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 1-4: Various images of cars driving down a dirt road toward a village. Thatch-roofed huts are on the left side of the road. Image 5: Liberian Vice-President William Richard Tolbert walking around a village with a crowd watching him. Tolbert is wearing a suit and talking to a woman on the right. A large thatch-roofed hut is in back with cars parked alongside. Image 6: A group of people wandering around the middle of a village. A large thatch-roofed hut is in that background. Cars are parked around the crowd and a string of colored flags is hanging between two poles. Image 7: A group of people standing along the side of a street outside the Executive Mansion. Everyone is standing around and talking, possibly waiting for arriving dignitaries. Image 8: A group of people standing along the side of a street next to the striped awning of the mansion. Everyone is standing around and talking, possibly waiting for arriving dignitaries. Image 9: Two men wearing traditional robes and caps standing in a crowd of people in front of the mansion. Everyone is standing around and talking. Men in uniforms are standing on the building porch. Image 10: Richard Abrom Henries, Liberian Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Tolbert standing in a crowd of people in front of the mansion. Henries is standing 4th from right and Tolbert is standing fifth from right. Both are looking up at the mansion. Everyone is standing around and talking. Image 11 & 12: Various images of people lining up to enter the mansion through the main striped awning entrance. Cars are parked along the street in front of the mansion. A Liberian flag and string of smaller flags are hanging off a telephone pole next to the mansion.