Mar 25, 2021 - Sale 2562

Sale 2562 - Lot 349

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(WOMEN'S HISTORY.) Cabinet card portrait of "Mrs. William Scott, negro lecturer." Albumen photograph, 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches, on photographer's mount; minimal wear. Salisbury, MO: Crowder, circa 1900
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Alice M. (Carpenter) Scott (1855-1903) of Lathrop, MO was born into slavery, and made a career of lecturing and fundraising on behalf of the American Baptist Home Missionary Society. She was profiled at length in the July 1902 issue of the Colored American Magazine, pages 227-232. She became ill and died at the age of 48 after arriving in Detroit for a lecture series. Her Detroit Free Press obituary (10 May 1903) noted that "she has often been compared to Booker T. Washington and was one of the leaders of her race in this country."