U.S. forces establish bases in Liberia. This "jeep" is being unloaded at a port in Liberia from a U.S. transport which brought a large contingent of American soldiers, chiefly Negroes, to the African Negro republic under a defense agreement concluded between the two countries at the request of Liberia's President, Edwin Barclay. The Liberian Republic was founded in 1821 by Negro freedmen under American auspices

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U.S. forces establish bases in Liberia. This "jeep" is being unloaded at a port in Liberia from a U.S. transport which brought a large contingent of American soldiers, chiefly Negroes, to the African Negro republic under a defense agreement concluded between the two countries at the request of Liberia's President, Edwin Barclay. The Liberian Republic was founded in 1821 by Negro freedmen under American auspices

Digital ID: (intermediary roll film) fsa 8b12864 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b12864
Reproduction Number: LC-USE613-D-007276 (b&w film nitrate neg.)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

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U.S. forces establish bases in Liberia. This "jeep" is being unloaded at a port in Liberia from a U.S. transport which brought a large contingent of American soldiers, chiefly Negroes, to the African Negro republic under a defense agreement concluded between the two countries at the request of Liberia's President, Edwin Barclay. The Liberian Republic was founded in 1821 by Negro freedmen under American auspices

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