View of Water St., showing waterfront and identified buildings including Gen. Sherman's business, Thos. Cooper's residence, H.D. Brown's store, and residence of the late Ex. Mayor Keller, circa 1860s

The collection consists of one box with 26 photoprints which were originally part of an album, the binding of which remains in the collection. Undated but thought to have been created in the 1860s, the photographs document towns, people, dignitaries and officials (identified) in Liberia and Sierra Leone, West Africa, including towns of Monrovia and Harper.

The collection also contains map of township of Harper at Cape Palmas, Liberia.