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Portrait of John Brown

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Photograph showing three-quarter length portrait of John Brown with beard, facing slight to the right.

Fields on the Former Anthony Thompson Plantation at Peter's Neck, Madison, Dorchester County, Maryland

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Fields on the former Anthony Thompson Plantation, at Peter's Neck, Madison, Dorchester County, Maryland. Slaveowner Anthony Thompson, owned Ben Ross, Tubman’s father and she born on the Thompson Plantation.

Harriet Tubman (Salisbury University, MD)

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Harriet Tubman wears a nineteenth-century inspired dress. On her left shoulder sits a saw-whet owl, at her right foot rests a rabbit. She extends her right arm into the air, perpendicular to her body. Ten seashells are sculpted into the base of the…

Map of part of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware from the best authorities

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Scale ca. 1:400,000. Map of part of eastern Virginia, eastern Maryland, and Delaware. Includes creeks and rivers, counties, villages, towns and major cities, (Richmond, Washington, DC, Baltimore, Wilmington), and major railroad lines. Forts Corcoran,…

Harriet Tubman (Auburn, NY)

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The seven-and-half foot tall (2.3 meters) bronze statue represents a young Harriet Tubman, traveling on the Underground Railroad. Clothed in nineteenth-century shawl, jacket, and pleated skirt, Tubman strides forward with her booted foot visible…

New railroad map of the state of Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia, Compiled and Drawn by Frank Arnold Gray

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Scale 1:633,600. Map of Maryland, Delaware, and District of Columbia that shows drainage, canals, stations, cities and towns, counties, canals, roads completed, narrow gauge and proposed railroads with names of lines. Includes list of railroads.

Harriet Ross Tubman Memorial (Bristol, PA)

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Single figure of Harriet Tubman, wearing a coat, haversack slung over her right shoulder, and a pistol at her waist. Tubman points her right hand toward the sky, symbolic of the “North Star.” Signed by the artist: James L. Gafgen, 2005. Foundry…

Harriet Tubman, abolitionist

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Photograph of Harriet Tubman at approximately 78 years, seated in a chair wearing a head wrap, black shawl, and white scarf. Ernsberger, Auburn, NY, signed on front of image, lower left.

Underground Railroad Memorial (Battle Creek, MI)

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A multi figure statue that includes portraits of Erastus and Sarah Hussey, abolitionists and Underground Railroad conductors in southern Michigan as well as an image of Harriet Tubman.

Harriet Tubman (fourth cast--Ypsilanti, MI)

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Harriet Tubman is shown with a walking stick in her right hand and grasping the hand of a young boy with her left hand.