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(SLAVERY ANDABOLITION.) TUBMAN, HARRIET.
The Harriet Tubman
Circle.
Silver print photograph, of a group of well-dressed men and women, 8x10 inches,
some trimming to the edges, blind and ink stamps of A.L. Macbeth, noted African-
American photographer.
Baltimore, circa 1910-1915
[600/800]
The Harriet Tubman Circle was more than likely the Harriet Tubman Charity Circle, one of
several such groups organized to support the aging Abolitionist. Seated to the right is a very young
Lillie M. Jackson, mother of Juanita Jackson-Mitchell, both noted NAACP activists.We could not
identify any of the others.The photograph was taken by Arthur Laidler Macbeth (1862-1944)
pioneering and award-winning African-American photographer and inventor.Macbeth started his
first studio in Charleston, SC, in 1886, and moved to Baltimore in 1910. He was the inventor
of the “MacBeth Daylight Motion Picture Screen,” that was designed to show stereoptican and
moving pictures in daylight.Member of the Photographers Association of America and the National
Negro Business League and was included in “Who’sWho of the Colored Race,” 1915.
AVIRTUALLY DEFINITIVE CATALOGUE
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) REFERENCE. HEARTMAN, CHARLES.
Catalog number 120 Americana, Printed and in Manuscript, a Most Interesting
Collection. . .
A catalogue of 2282 items of African American interest.Tall 8vo, original
printed orange wrappers. A virtually pristine copy.
Biloxi, 1948
[400/600]
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION
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Americana dealer Charles Heartman’s extraordinary and in
some ways definitive catalogue of books, pamphlets and manuscript African American material
from the 16th century to the 19th century.An invaluable reference. Many of the items described
in this volume were purchased by institutions and will probably not be seen again.
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