Harriet Tubman at home with her friends, residents of the Home for the Aged and Indigent Negroes, Auburn, New York

Harriet Tubman at home with her friends, residents of the Home for the Aged and Indigent Negroes, Auburn, New York

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Harriet Tubman at home with her friends, residents of the Home for the Aged and Indigent Negroes, Auburn, New York

1887
Albumen silver print
Image: 4 7/16 × 7 11/16 in. (11.3 × 19.5 cm)
Mount: 5 1/4 × 8 7/16 in. (13.3 × 21.5 cm)
Matted: 11 15/16 × 14 7/16 × 1/8 in. (30.3 × 36.7 × 0.3 cm)
Gift of Donald K. Weber
1997.1826.0001
Inscriptions inscribed on mount recto, TL TC TR:
[identification of subjects, left to right]: Harrit [sic] Tubman \ Gertie Davis \ Mr. Davis \ Lee Chaney \ Alexander Parker \ Walter Green \ Sarah Parker \ Dora Stewart
inscribed in pencil on mount verso, C: Harriet Tubman at home & her friends \ Residents of the Home for the Aged and \ Indigent Negroes \ Auburn N.Y. 1887
inscribed in pencil on mount verso, C: Left to Right \ Harriet Tubman \ Gertie Davis Watson \ Nelson Davis (Harriet Tubman's second husband) \ Lee Cheyney \ 'Pop' Alexander \ Walter Green \ Blind Aunty Parker \ Dora Stewart \ The Home for Aged and Indigent Negroes was \ built by Harriet Tubman in 1869 and is now \ the Harriet Tubman Memorial Home

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