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Photograph of Eva Northrup and others at the launching of the S.S. Tubman

June 3, 1944

South Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, United States, North and Central America

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A black-and-white photograph of Eva Stewart Northrup along with nine other women and one boy standing in a line at the christening of the S.S. Harriet Tubman, mounted on a black paper page of a bound photograph album commemorating the event owned by Harriet Tubman's niece, Eva Stewart Northrup. Blue ink from a pen has been used to number the sitters in the photograph. In the background, some shipworks are visible.

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Catalog reference: 2009.50.29.10

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