Man from Abari Quarter

Print, Photographic

Accession Number: 2009.24.16.457

Description: BW print; man wearing felt cap, dark skin, his face heavily scarred and eyes closed; wearing a light shirt with a button front and lace trim; a wooden structure in the background; stamped "British Empire Society for the Blind"; captioned "A young man of Abari Court, a quarter of Lagos, Nigeria; this part of the town is inhabited mainly by blind beggars".

Medium: Photographic Paper

Date: ca. 1955

Credit Line: AFB Migel Memorial Library Collection, 2009.24

Subjects: Africa Blind persons Nigeria