Harriet Tubman, photograph by Harvey B. Lindsley
Harriet Tubman, photograph by Harvey B. Lindsley, of Auburn, New York. It was taken between 1871 and 1876, when Tubman was about 50 years old. For decades after the Civil War, Tubman sought a Federal pension for her service to Union Army as scout, nurse, and spy. Finally in 1899, the U.S. Congress passed, and President William McKinley signed, a law which granting Tubmans pension for her service as a nurse, but not as a scout and spy
Picture No
13122807
Media ID
45381766
Size
1874px x 3000px
(650KB)
Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
Source
Courtesy Everett Collection
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