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Creator Henrici & Garns, photographer.
Title [Mary Ann C. Shadd?, Washington, D.C.] [graphic] / Henrici & Garns, photographers. No. 709 South Second Street, Philadelphia.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1875
Date [ca. 1875]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 10 x 6 cm (3.75 x 2.5 in.) (carte de visite format)
Description Bust-length portrait of an African American woman, possibly American-Canadian anti-slavery activist, journalist, publisher, teacher, and lawyer Mary Ann Shadd Cary. Sitter faces right and wears her long hair back and in a chignon and top knot. A head band with an ornament adorns her hair. She is attired in a dark-colored, V-neck garment with a white ruffled collar and dark-colored lace neckerchief. She also wears a cross necklace and drop earrings. Shad Cary, was born free in Delaware to parents active in the Underground Railroad, before relocating to Pennsylvania, then Canada in 1853. In later years, following the Civil War, Shad Cary resided in Washington, D.C. where she died in 1893. During her life, she founded a school for Black children in Pennsylvania and a racially integrated school in Ontario, Canada; was the first Black woman publisher in North America when she founded, in 1853, and edited the anti-slavery and civil rights advocacy newspaper "The Provincial Freeman,"; was the second Black woman to attend law school (Howard University) in the United States; and founded, in 1880, the women's rights advocacy organization the Colored Women's Progressive Franchise. Shad Cary also wrote for multiple newspapers, such as the National Era, served as a Civil War recruiter, and was the first African American woman to vote in a national election.
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso: Mariann [sic] C. Shadd, Washington, D.C.
Photographer's imprint stamped on verso.
Date inferred from active dates of photographer at address listed in imprint.
Biographical / historical note Henrici & Garns operated from 709 South Second Street between 1874 and 1876.
Subject Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893 -- Portraits.
African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Portraits.
African American women -- Clothing & dress -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American women civil rights workers.
African American women journalists.
African American women lawyers.
African American women teachers.
Women publishers.
Genre Cartes de visite -- 1870-1880.
Portrait photographs -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv portraits - sitter - Cary [P.2023.4]
Accession number P.2023.4

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