Harriet Tubman Picture Gallery

Harriet Tubman

Photograph of Harriet Tubman is labeled in the Library of Congress image as "nurse, spy and scout."

This is perhaps the best-known of all Tubman's photographs.  Copies were widely distributed as CDVs, small cards with photos on them, and were sometimes sold to support Tubman.

Harriet Tubman in the Civil War

Picture of Harriet Tubman during her Civil War Service, from Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman by Sarah Bradford, published 1869.
This was produced during Tubman's lifetime.  Sarah Hopkins Bradford (1818 - 1912) was a writer who produced two biographies of Tubman during her lifetime.  She also wrote Harriet, the Moses of Her People which was published in 1886. Both Tubman books have gone through many editions, including in the 21st century.

Other books she wrote included a history of Peter the Great of Russia and a children's book about Columbus, plus many prose and rhyme books for children.

Bradford's 1869 book on Tubman was based on interviews with Tubman, and the proceeds were used to support Tubman. The book helped to gain fame for Tubman, not only in the United States, but worldwide.

Harriet Tubman - 1880s

In this photograph first published by the New York Times in the 1880s, Harriet Tubman is shown with some of those she helped escape from enslavement.

In 1899, the New York Times Illustrated Magazine wrote about the Underground Railroad, including these words:

EVERY schoolboy in his second year's study of United States history frequently meets with the term "underground railroad." It seems to have an actual existence, particularly if he amplifies his study with outside reading concerning the period before the civil war. Its line grows in definite directions, and stations seem to grow up along the way as he reads of the escape of slaves from the Southern States through the North to free Canada.

Harriet Tubman in Her Later Years

A photograph of Harriet Tubman, from the published scrapbooks of Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller, 1897-1911, first published 1911.

Elizabeth Smith Miller was the daughter of Gerrit Smith, a North American 19th-century Black activist whose home was a station on the Underground Railroad. Her mother, Ann Carrol Fitzhugh Smith, was an active participant in the efforts to shelter the formerly enslaved people and help them on their route to the north.

Anne Fitzhugh Miller was the daughter of Elizabeth Smith Miller and Charles Dudley Miller.

Gerrit Smith was also one of the Secret Six, men who supported John Brown's raid on Harper Ferry. Harriet Tubman was another supporter of that raid, and if she had not been delayed in her travels, would likely have been with John Brown at the ill-fated raid.

Elizabeth Smith Miller was a cousin of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and was among the first to wear the pantaloon costume called bloomers.

Harriet Tubman - From a Painting

This image is painted from the photograph in the Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller scrapbooks.

Harriet Tubman's Home

Pictured here is the home of Harriet Tubman where she lived in her later years.  It is located in Fleming, New York.

The home is now operated as The Harriet Tubman Home, Inc., an organization established by the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church to whom Tubman left her home, and by the National Park Service.  It is part of the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park, which has three locations: the home Tubman lived in, the Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged which she operated in her later years, and the Thompson A.M.E. Zion Church.  

Harriet Tubman Statue

A statue of Harriet Tubman in Columbus Square, South End, Boston, Massachusetts, at Pembroke St. and Columbus Ave. This was the first statue in Boston on city property that honored a woman. The bronze statue stands 10 feet tall. The sculptor, Fern Cunningham, is from Boston. Tubman holds a Bible under her arm. Tubman never lived in Boston, though she knew residents of the city. The Harriet Tubman settlement house, now relocated, is part of South End, and was initially focused on services of Black women who were refugees from the South after the Civil War.

Harriet Tubman Quote

A visitor's shadow falls on a quote from Harriet Tubman, displayed at the Underground Railroad Freedom Center In Cincinnati.