Photograph of Eva Northrup on the plantation where Harriet Tubman was enslaved
- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Northrup, Eva Stewart, American, 1890 - 1964
- Tubman, Harriet, American, 1822 - 1913
- Date
- 1940s - 1950s
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (6.4 x 8.9 cm)
- Description
- A black-and-white photograph of Eva Stewart Northrup, great niece of Harriet Tubman, at the plantation in Cambridge, Maryland where Tubman was enslaved. Northrup is pictured in a hat and wide-striped coat over a dark dress, her proper right hand on a the handle of a cast iron well water hand pump. In the background is a field with trees in the distance and another woman at far left. On the back are handwritten inscriptions [Eva at Cambridge Md.] in graphite and [This is the plantation / in Cambridge Maryland where Aunt Harriet was / held a slave] and [When she spoke at the High / school + present / Aunt Harriets / picture / 19], both in blue ink.
- Place depicted
- Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
- Topic
- Families
- Photography
- Self-liberation
- Slavery
- Social reform
- Women
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Charles L. Blockson
- Object number
- 2009.50.14.4
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
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