Title

Mrs. M. E. C. Smith [recto], 1902. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Mrs. M. E. C. Smith [recto], 1902. Mary E. C. Smith, African-American Sunday-school teacher, principal of the Normal Department of the Edward Waters College. At an early age '...she was impressed with the idea that it was her duty to go to the South to instruct her people, who were just emerging from bondage'. From a 'cyclopedia of thought on the vital topics relating to' black Americans.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23A07_008

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Rights managed

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28,7Mb (2,3Mb) / 8,9in x 12,5in / 2668 x 3761 (300dpi)

Keywords

female women woman people black library job education teacher country occupation color location century teaching profession concept African American African-American B&W afro-american educator public library United States of America Colour rights black & white black and white B W white and black 1900s 20th century human rights New York Public Library NYPL heritage American America USA photograph portrait united states Unknown Smith George Washington cultural heritage Black History Heritage Art Carver portraits Nichols Schomburg Center for Research Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture J. L. Nichols J. L. J. L. Nichols & Co J. L. Nichols & Company J.L. Nichols & Co Daniel Wallace Culp Culp Daniel Wallace George Washington Carver Dr. G.W. Carver Geo. W. Carver Premier Publishing Co. Premier Publishi Mary E. C. Smith Mary E. C.