<I>The Door to Lee Perry's, Washington Gardens</I>
date: label: Date
content: 2003
name: label: Photograph by
content: Peter Rickards, Jamaican, 1969 - 2014
label: Subject of
content: Lee Perry, Jamaican, 1936 - 2021
notes: label: Description
content: A color photograph of the exterior door to Lee "Scratch" Perry's in the Washington Gardens neighborhood of Kingston, Jamaica.
label: Description
content: The image depits a colorful, closed wooden door with barred side window and brick exterior. The window has metal bars in a decorative scroll design. The door, window, bars, and brick wall have been red, yellow and green. The left side of the window, next to the door, has a wide streak of purple and two purple hand prints are visible in the red paint of the top left portion of the door. The center of the door has been covered in blue and purple toned images of Emperor Haile Selassie I. There are colorful, metallic stickers of Selassie I across the top of the door and two near the center of the window. At the bottom of the window is a poster with blue artwork, colorful mettalic stickers, a playing card with Selassie I and a sticker reading "I [red heart] ETHIOPIA]. A small Jamaican flag hangs from the top left of the window and a large green plant is to the left of the window, in front of the painted brick exterior. There is a handwritten inscription by Bill Adler on the back with the title, location, date and photographer.
place: label: Place captured
content: Jamaica, Caribbean, North and Central America
label: Cultural Place
content: Ethiopia, Africa
title: label: Title
content: Photographic print of the door to Lee Perry's
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Business
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Rastafarianism
label: Topic
content: Reggae (Music)
label: Topic
content: Religion
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Eyejammie Hip-Hop Photography Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2015.132.19
objectType: label: Type
content: color prints (photographs)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Peter L.T. Rickards and Diana A. Rickards
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Sheet): 13 7/8 × 10 7/8 in. (35.3 × 27.6 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image): 13 7/16 × 10 1/8 in. (34.2 × 25.7 cm)