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Photograph of the Harriet Tubman Memorial Plaque at the Cayuga County Court House in Auburn, New York. The 1913 bronze plaque includes a portrait of Tubman, based on an 1890s photograph. Rendered in raised relief and surrounded by a laurel motif.
The bronze plaque honoring Harriet Tubman has a dark patina and a rectangular body topped with a rounded arch. At the top, Tubman’s portrait—based on an 1890s photograph—is rendered in bas-relief and surrounded by a laurel motif. Her expression is…

Photograph of Step on Board: Harriet Tubman Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, a figurative monument with Tubman dressed in nineteenth-century dress and leading freedom seekers to the North.
A high relief sculpture with Harriet Tubman and six figures: three women, two men, and a baby. All figures are clothed in nineteenth-century dress. Wearing a dress, shawl, and head wrap, Tubman strides forward, gesturing with her left hand and…

Photograph of Harriet Tubman statue in Mesa, Arizona, with Tubman carrying a walking stick and holding the hand of a young boy.
The monument depicts Harriet Tubman leading a young African American boy by her left hand and holding a long walking stick in her right. She wears a brimmed hat, a long-sleeve shirt with a shawl wrapped around her neck, and a flowing skirt. As they…

Photograph of Harriet Tubman statue  in Gainesville, Georgia. Detail of Tubman's face.
The monument depicts Harriet Tubman leading a young African American boy by her left hand and holding a long walking stick in her right. She wears a brimmed hat, a long-sleeve shirt with a shawl wrapped around her neck, and a flowing skirt. As they…

Photograph of Harriet Tubman statue in Little Rock, Arkansas, with Tubman holding a walking stick and the hand of a young boy.
The monument depicts Harriet Tubman leading a young African American boy by her left hand and holding a long walking stick in her right. She wears a brimmed hat, a long-sleeve shirt with a shawl wrapped around her neck, and a flowing skirt. As they…

Photograph of  Harriet Tubman statue on the grounds of the Ypsilanti District Library in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Tubman is carrying a walking stick and holding the hand of a young boy.
The monument depicts Harriet Tubman leading a young African American boy by her left hand and holding a long walking stick in her right. She wears a brimmed hat, a long-sleeve shirt with a shawl wrapped around her neck, and a flowing skirt. As they…

Harriet Tubman Monument in Beaufort, South Carolina, depicts Tubman striding forward on a black granite plinth.
The monument depicts Harriet Tubman, co-leader of the military operation now known as the Combahee River Raid (also called the Combahee Ferry Raid), which took place in South Carolina on June 1, 1863. During the raid, more than 700 enslaved people…

Photograph of Frederick Douglass Monument on Hornbake Plaza at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Located on the large brick plaza outside Hornbake Library at the University of Maryalnd, the full-size sculpture of Frederick Douglass portrays him in the middle of a speech with his mouth open and his brown deeply furrowed. His right arm is…

A late-nineteenth century bronze statue, the figure o Douglass stands on a tall granite plinth.
Sculptor Stanley W. Edwards modeled Douglass with his shoulders back, feet planted squarely forward, and his arms outstretched with his palms open as if he were addressing an audience. Mounted on the statue's pedestal are four bronze plaques, three…

Photograph of the Harriet Ross Tubman Memorial in Bristol, Pennsylvania, along the Delaware River.  A statue of Harriet Tubman on a plinth around surrounded by eight short columns.
The single bronze figure of Harriet Tubman stands atop a black granite plinth. Tubman wears a coat, haversack slung over her right shoulder, and a pistol at her waist. Tubman's right arm is raised to the sky as she points her right hand toward the…
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