Object Details
- 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.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Eva Stewart Northrup, American, 1890 - 1964
- Harriet Tubman, American, 1822 - 1913
- Date
- 1940s - 1950s
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Charles L. Blockson
- 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)
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
