Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1825-1911 – Historic Reproduction
![Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1825-1911, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8f/8f5a3c25f84a-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1825-1911
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, the poet, novelist and lecturer, is the subject of this engraved portrait, which appeared in William Still's 1872 history The Underground Railroad. Harper (1825-1911) was a free-born Black woman from Baltimore who wrote widely read poems against slavery and later became a leading voice for temperance, women's suffrage and civil rights. The record gives no date for the engraving itself, but its placement in Still's book, a documentary account of the Underground Railroad compiled by a Philadelphia abolitionist, ties it to the post-Civil War period when Harper was well known.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: William Still, The Underground Railway, p. 748. cf. Hughes & Meltzer, A Pictorial History of the Negro in America, p. 77 & p. 105 (E185.H83 1963, P&P). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Negroes--Employ.; Negro Women--Port.; BI--Works; Negroes--Occupations; Women--Occupations; BI; Shelf. Sources checked: www; Websters. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,304 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-148941 |
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