Growing Younger with Harriet Tubman

with Carla Hayden and Kasi Lemmons

What if you could leave just one photograph behind? Librarian of Congress and film director Kasi Lemmons love Harriet Tubman, but they weren't in love with her portrait as an older woman in a heavy dark dress. Then Hayden got a call.

two African American women one with short hair and blue suit one with blond braids

Carla Hayden, photo courtesy loc.gov | Kasi Lemmons, photo courtesy hollywoodreporter.com

Read more about the portraits:
  • Harriet Arminta Tubman | H. Seymour Squyer | Photograph, printing-out paper print | National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution |   NPG.2006.86
  • Harriet Arminta Tubman | John G. Darby | c. 1868, Wood engraving on paper | National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution | NPG.2006.31  
  • Photograph album owned by Emily Howland | Manufactured by James B. Smith & Co. | Leather, metal, and ink on paper | Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture shared with the Library of Congress | NPG.2008.9
  • Carte-de-visite portrait of Harriet Tubman | Benjamin F. Powelson | Albumen and silver on photographic paper on card mount | Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture shared with the Library of Congress | NMAAC.2017.30.17
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