Receptions, Guests, Military personnel. Christie, Lansdell, President of Liberia Mining Company; DuBose, Laurance Toombs, Admiral; Price, Frederick A., Consul General of Liberia. United States of America, North and Central America. Colonel Lansdell Christie, a former colonel in the US army who during World War II had served in Liberia and thus had become acquainted with the country and its economic potential, started Liberia’s first modern iron ore mine with the creation of the Liberian Mining Company, in 1945 (http://www.liberiapastandpresent.org/ODP/IronOre/IronOreB.htm).
Format of original material: 8 x 10 inch Black & White Print. Photographer: unknown. Publisher/Agency: Orphan work.
