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Photograph album from the launching of the S.S. Harriet Tubman

1944

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

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Source catalog description

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

A clothbound album with gilt stamping commemorating the christening of the Liberty ship S.S. Harriet Tubman owned by Harriet Tubman's niece, Eva Stewart Northrup. The album contains twelve large black and white photographs of the event, along with a newspaper clipping and a handwritten note.

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Catalog reference: 2009.50.29

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