(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) TUBMAN HARRIET The Harriet Tubman Ci

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) 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

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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's Who of the Colored Race," 1915.