List of attendees of the launching of the S.S. Harriet Tubman

Mariline Northrup Wilkins American Vivian Carter Mason American Eva Stewart Northrup American Mary Church Terrell American Harriet Tubman

1940

Medium: ink on paper
Genre: Attendance lists
Museum: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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attendance lists

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militaryWorld War, 1939-1945slaveryWW IIwomenWomen's Club MovementSocial reform

About

A handwritten list of attendees at the launching of the S.S. Harriet Tubman, mounted on a black paper page of a bound photograph album commemorating the event owned by Harriet Tubman's niece, Eva Stewart Northrup. Likely written by Northrup, the note is in black and blue ink on off-white paper. At the top, [S.S. "Harriet Tubman" / South Portland Maine / June 3 1944 at 9am]. Below is a list of names of women, including Vivian Carter Mason and Mary Church Terrell, along with several women identified as grand-niece and great grand-nieces of Tubman.