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Albert Witchen with two women

Image

Albert Witchen, Vice Consul for American Legation, sitting with two women at an outdoor dining table, possibly at a restaurant or party in Monrovia...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Bush Devil dancer on an open road

Image

A Bush Devil dancer, symbolic of the materialization of a spirit form as well as the chief's authority for the Vai tribe, on an open road somewhere in...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Bush Devil dancer on an open road

Image

A Bush Devil dancer, symbolic of the materialization of a spirit form as well as the chief's authority for the Vai tribe, on an open road somewhere in...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Children walking across a large concrete pier

Image

Children walking across a large concrete pier possibly in Barcelona. The children are wearing black robes over t-shirts and shorts. A car is parked on...

Date Published
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Couples dancing during a party at American Legation

Image

Couples dancing and people milling about during a party at the American Legation, Hansons House, in Monrovia. Orchid Jordan is dancing with a man...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Crowd of people boarding a large ship

Image

A crowd of people boarding a large ship. Everyone is gathering to walk up a staircase from the pier to the ship. People on the ship are leaning over...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Crowds of people watching girls dancing

Image

Crowds of people watching girls dancing during a parade or event in Monrovia. The girls are wearing white dresses and dancing around maypoles with...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Crowds on a large pier

Image

Crowds walking on a large pier, likely in Monrovia. A large shipping or transport ship is docked at the back of the pier.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Crowds on a large pier

Image

Crowds walking on a large pier, likely in Monrovia. A large shipping or transport ship is docked at the back of the pier.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Crowds on a large pier

Image

Crowds walking on a large pier, likely in Monrovia. A large shipping or transport ship is docked at the back of the pier. Many of the people walking...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Crowds watching a street parade

Image

Crowds watching a street parade for an event in Monrovia. Several uniformed officials are walking down the street with a group of young girls in white...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Damon and unidentified man driving "Sound Bug" in Kansas City parade

Image

Vic Damon (right) and unidentified man driving the "Sound Bug," a novelty car with sound system advertising Damon Recording Studios; street scene...

Date Published
1952
1956
Member of
Vic Damon Collection

Five matadors and a bull in the center of a large stadium

Image

Five matadors and a bull in the center of a large stadium in Barcelona. The bull in running toward one of the matadors. The stadium has two levels of...

Date Published
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Five unidentified men in military uniforms

Image

Five unidentified men in military uniforms standing in front of a car on the street in Monrovia. The men are wearing formal dress uniforms and looking...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Five unidentified men on a beach

Image

Five unidentified men on a beach in Liberia in front of large kayaks. The men are wearing swimming shorts and looking forward.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Five unidentified men on a beach

Image

Five unidentified men on a beach in Liberia in front of large canoes. The men are wearing swimming shorts and looking forward.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Five unidentified people on a dirt road

Image

Five unidentified people standing on a dirt road in the middle of a village in rural Liberia. A woman in the center is holding a small child. Everyone...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Five unidentified women on the beach

Image

Five unidentified women on the beach in Liberia. Four women are sitting at a table under an umbrella and playing cards. A fifth woman standing on the...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Five unidentified women standing by trees

Image

Five unidentified women standing in front of trees and bushes in a rural area of Liberia. The woman on the left is holding a small child. All the...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Forest Byars & LPC looking over Pershing Sq Garage

Image

Forest Byars, man identified as garage architect, and L. Perry Cookingham all wearing suits and ties with hats stand on driveway at Pershing Square...

Date Published
1952
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Four matadors and a bull at the side of a large stadium

Image

Four matadors and a bull at the side of a large stadium in Barcelona. The bull in running toward one of the matadors. The stadium has two levels of...

Date Published
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Four men in an open dirt road

Image

Four unidentified men standing in an open dirt road, somewhere in Liberia. The men are wearing floor length robes and head coverings.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Four men in an open dirt road

Image

Four unidentified men standing in an open dirt road, somewhere in Liberia. The men are wearing floor length robes and head coverings.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Four men in an open dirt road

Image

Four unidentified men standing in an open dirt road, somewhere in Liberia. The men are wearing floor length robes and head coverings.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Four men in an open dirt road

Image

Four unidentified men standing in an open dirt road with several houses along the side, somewhere in Liberia. The men are wearing floor length robes...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

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Member of

  • Leon M. Jordan Collection (279)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (11)
  • Ted Malone Collection (2)
  • Vic Damon Collection (1)
  • Walt Bodine Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (294)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (292)
  • Gelatin silver prints (292)
  • Snapshots (281)
  • Portrait photographs (275)
  • Color photographs (2)
  • Film transparencies (2)
  • Stereographs (2)
  • Portraits (1)
  • (-) Group portraits (294)

Time Periods

  • 1951-1960 (294)
  • 1941-1950 (208)

Subjects

  • Rural conditions (33)
  • Boats and boating (22)
  • Parades (19)
  • Soldiers (19)
  • Bullfights (17)
  • Parties (17)
  • Beaches (16)
  • Airplanes (15)
  • Street life (14)
  • Buildings (11)
  • Huts (10)
  • Rites and ceremonies (10)
  • Liberians (9)
  • City managers (8)
  • Landscape gardening (7)
  • Police (7)
  • Men (6)
  • Restaurants (6)
  • Crowds (5)
  • Tour guides (Persons) (5)
  • Dinners and dining (4)
  • Men, White (4)
  • Plazas (4)
  • Statues (4)
  • Stores, Retail (4)
  • Automobiles (3)
  • Bridges (3)
  • Fire engines (3)
  • Military uniforms (3)
  • Monuments (3)
  • Piers (3)
  • Sailors (3)
  • Thatched buildings (3)
  • Women (3)
  • African American police (2)
  • African American women (2)
  • Carriages and carts (2)
  • Castles (2)
  • Church buildings (2)
  • Cows (2)
  • Customs administration (2)
  • Dwellings (2)
  • Embassy buildings (2)
  • Folk dancers (2)
  • Streets (2)
  • Tour Eiffel (Paris, France) (2)
  • Villages (2)
  • Violinists (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • Arc de Triomphe (Paris, France) (1)
  • Architects (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Baskets (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Camera operators (1)
  • Civil service (1)
  • Dance (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Degrees, Academic (1)
  • Dogs (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Fountains (1)
  • Gardens (1)
  • Handicraft (1)
  • Husband and wife (1)
  • Manual work (1)
  • Mothers and sons (1)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses (1)
  • Opera--Stage-setting and scenery (1)
  • Parrots (1)
  • Popes (1)
  • Radio broadcasting (1)
  • Railroads (1)
  • Roads (1)
  • Ruins (1)
  • Schools (1)
  • Set designers (1)
  • Special events (1)
  • Street-railroads (1)
  • Television broadcasting (1)
  • Television journalists (1)
  • Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Liberia (107)
  • Monrovia (Liberia) (81)
  • Barcelona (Spain) (20)
  • Europe (16)
  • Paris (France) (13)
  • Spain (9)
  • Italy (8)
  • Robertsport (Liberia) (5)
  • London (England) (3)
  • Cleveland (Ohio) (1)
  • Gbarnga (Liberia) (1)
  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (1)
  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (1)
  • New York (N.Y.) (1)
  • Parkville (Missouri) (1)
  • Rome (Italy) (1)
  • Vatican City (1)

Subjects, People

  • Jordan, Leon M. (Leon Mercer), 1905-1970 (62)
  • Jordan, Orchid, 1910-1995 (38)
  • Cookingham, L. Perry (Laurie Perry), 1896-1992 (9)
  • Tubman, William V. S., 1895-1971 (6)
  • Dudley, Edward R., 1911-2005 (2)
  • Bodine, Bernadine (Bernadine Mary), 1918-2003 (1)
  • Bodine, Mary (Mary Ethyl), 1893-1952 (1)
  • Bodine, Walt, 1920- (1)
  • Byars, Forest (1)
  • Damon, Victor L., 1901-1974 (1)
  • Darby, Harry, 1895-1987 (1)
  • Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975 (1)
  • Malone, Ted, 1908-1989 (1)
  • Manan ʼAsfāw, ʼEtégé, 1891-1962 (1)
  • Monroe, James (Broadcaster) (1)
  • Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958 (1)
  • Power, Tyrone, 1914-1958 (1)
  • Stooker, Marion J. (1)
  • White, Ronald, M. (1)
  • Whyte, Larry (1)

Date Published

  • 1947 (207)
  • 1948 (1)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1953 (1)
  • 1956 (1)
  • (-) 1952 (294)

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