Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 466

Price Realized: $ 4,750
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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(WOMEN'S HISTORY--PROFESSIONAL.) Portrait of trailblazing physician Georgia Lee Patton. Albumen photograph, 5¾ x 3¾ inches, on original photographer's mount, with contemporary inscriptions on verso; minimal wear. Clinton, IA: Gilbert Temple, photographer, circa 1893
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Georgia E. Lee Patton Washington (1864-1900) was born into slavery in Tennessee. She graduated from Meharry Medical College in 1893, the first Black woman in Tennessee to become a licensed physician. She spent two years in Liberia as a medical missionary, sharing a cabin with Ida Wells on her journey.

The inked inscription on verso suggests that Patton's missionary work was funded by an Iowa church, which does not seem to be generally known. It reads: "Missionary to Africa sent by the Methodist Society of Clinton." "Miss Georgie L. Patton" is inscribed in pencil above.