Mar 27, 2019 · The museum unveiled a never-before-seen portrait of American icon Harriet Tubman as a younger woman, which was discovered in a photo album owned by fellow abolitionist Emily Howland.

Mar 26, 2019 · “Suddenly, there was a picture of Harriet Tubman as a young woman, and as soon as I saw it I was stunned,” says a grinning Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum...

Feb 10, 2017 · Now, a newly discovered photograph going on auction next month might offer a rare look at Tubman in her 40s, James Rogers reports at Fox News. “There are very few known photographs of Harriet...

Mar 20, 2019 · The Emily Howland album containing a previously unknown portrait of abolitionist and Underground Railroad-conductor Harriet Tubman will be the first acquisition to be displayed in Heritage Hall, the museum’s main entry hall.

Apr 29, 2016 · A viral image is not a photograph of African-American abolitionist Harriet Tubman as a young woman.

Feb 15, 2017 · Harriet Tubman was thin and petite, only five feet tall, an interesting figure we don’t often imagine when we think of the iconic strong black woman leading her ban of fugitives, threatening them with her pistol in hand whenever they grew weary on the journey to freedom.

Mar 26, 2019 · A never-before-seen photograph of Harriet Tubman as a young woman went on view today at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC.

Feb 10, 2020 · In 2017, the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History acquired a previously unknown photograph of Harriet Tubman depicting the historical figure as young and stylish, closer to what she would have looked like during her days as an operative of the Underground Railroad.

May 27, 2020 · In 2017, a photograph of a young Harriet Tubman surfaced that had been lost to history for more than a century. How does it change how we see her?

Mar 7, 2018 · Newly-discovered images in our just-digitized Howland Album include abolitionist Harriet Tubman & John Willis Menard, 1st African-American elected to Congress. In the …