Six years after a new photo of Harriet Tubman captured the world's imagination, another rare image of the abolitionist has been released.
Harriet Tubman Tours of Cambridge, Maryland, posted an uncirculated 1908 photo of its namesake on Facebook last week. Alex Green, the owner of the tour group, told The Citizen that the photo was taken by an acquaintance of Sarah Bradford, who published the first biographies of Tubman. At the time of the photo, Tubman was about 85 years old, and she would pass away in 1913.
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"The clarity of the picture is remarkable," Green said. "She still looks remarkably good. You can still see the power in her face."
The brick structure behind Tubman is most likely her home on South Street in Auburn, Green said. However, the location of the photo itself remains a mystery. He only possesses it digitally. Unlike the last photo of Tubman to surface, the mid-1860s portrait of her found in an album owned by Emily Howland, the history of the 1908 photo is also unknown.
A crude reproduction of the photo appeared in The Auburn Daily Advertiser on June 23, 1908.
Green recalled first seeing the photo years ago. At first he didn't give it much thought, as it wasn't directly related to Tubman's life in Maryland, the focus of his tour group. But he was going through his archives recently when he saw the photo again, he said, and it hit him that he hadn't seen it anywhere else. He consulted Tubman biographer Kate Clifford Larson to confirm its authenticity.
Green hopes the photo's release generates more interest in Tubman and the story of her determination to live free, and to help others do the same, that Harriet Tubman Tours tells in Maryland.Â
"I thought it'd be interesting to move the needle forward with her wonderful life," Green said. "History has so much to catch up to."
Gallery: Photographs of Harriet Tubman
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Harriet Tubman, circa 1908, in a new picture released by Harriet Tubman Tours in Cambridge, Maryland.
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A photo of Harriet Tubman, circa 1865-1868.
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Harriet Tubman, circa 1871-1876.
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Harriet Tubman, left, with slaves she freed during the Civil War, circa 1885.
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Harriet Tubman, circa 1895.
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Harriet Tubman in 1911.
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Harriet Tubman in 1892.