Liberia History Gallery
Explore photographs and visual stories from Liberia's history, culture, people, and national heritage.
A Coffee Farm at Clay-Ashland, Liberia
Date: 1893Location: Clay-Ashland, Montserrado County, LiberiaCategory: Agriculture & Economic HistoryHistorical Significance:This photograph provides an important visual record...
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Monrovia Looking Across the Mesurado River
Date: 1890Location: Monrovia, LiberiaCategory: Monrovia Through HistoryHistorical Significance:This photograph provides a rare visual record of Monrovia and the surrounding Mesurad...
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The Liberian Senate, Monrovia
Date: Approximately 1856Location: Monrovia, LiberiaCategory: Government & Nation BuildingHistorical Significance:This image depicts the Liberian Senate in Monrovia, around 1856...
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Nine Mandingo People in Liberia
Date: 19th century — exact date not established.Location: Liberia, West AfricaCategory: Indigenous Peoples & CultureHistorical Significance:This is a photo of the first “Liberi...
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Jane Roberts, Wife of Liberia’s First President
Date: January 1854Location: Monrovia, LiberiaCategory: Women in Liberian History / Presidents & LeadersHistorical Significance:This photograph is a remarkably early visual reco...
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Edward Wilmot Blyden, Liberian Intellectual
Date: Between 1851 and 1860Location: LiberiaCategory: Presidents & Leaders / IntellectualsHistorical Significance:This is an authentic nineteenth-century photographic portrait ...
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Joseph Jenkins Roberts, First President of Liberia
Date: January 1854Location: Monrovia, LiberiaCategory: Presidents & LeadersHistorical Significance:This is an exceptionally valuable image because it is an early photographic p...
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Liberian College, Monrovia
Date: 1893Location: Monrovia, LiberiaCategory: Education & InstitutionsHistorical Significance:This photograph shows male students standing on the balconies of Liberian College...
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Monrovia Harbor from the M.E. Seminary
Title: Monrovia Harbor from the M.E. SeminaryDate: Approximately 1895–1896Location: Monrovia, LiberiaCategory: Monrovia Through HistoryHistorical Significance:This photograph provi...
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Ashmun Street, Monrovia, 1893
Date: 1893Location: Monrovia, LiberiaCategory: Monrovia Through HistoryHistorical significance:This photograph provides a rare visual record of Monrovia during the late nineteenth ...
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