Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Black Star Square
1967
Africa; Ghana
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.
Photograph taken by Janet Stanley of the Black Star Square in Accra, Ghana, 1967. The original caption reads, "Black Star Square in Accra, Ghana, June 1967; the parade ground was built by Kwame Nkrumah during the nationalistic fervor of his rule and Ghana's independence. The two young men in the foreground were affiliated with the Ghanaian Youth Association and were showing me [Janet Stanley] around Accra on foot.".
- Collection
- Janet Stanley Ghana photographs
- Catalog date
- 1967
- Recorded places
- Africa; Ghana
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- Stanley, Janet
- Format and extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) ((1 v., col.)
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Catalog reference: sova.eepa.1998-004_ref507
Collection: Janet Stanley Ghana photographs