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Harvard relinquishes 1850 portraits of enslaved Renty, Delia: Photos headed to SC museum
The university has agreed to relinquish ownership of two 175-year-old daguerreotypes of an enslaved father named Renty and ...
South Florida Times21h
Harvard agrees to relinquish early photos of enslaved people, ending a legal battle
This copy photo shows a 1850 Daguerreotype of Renty, a South Carolina slave who Tamara Lanier, of Norwich, Conn., said is her family’s patriarch. PHOTO ...
The Westside Gazette3d
Harvard agrees to give up early photos of slaves
Harvard University will relinquish ownership of the earliest known photographs of enslaved people as part of a historic legal ...
From the Files of Harvard, Here’s How Real Slaves Looked 175 Years Ago
A picture is worth 1,000 words, and in the case of two enslaved African Americans, their portraits set off a historic chain ...
WBUR10d
Harvard agrees to relinquish early photos of enslaved people, ending a long legal battle
The photos of the subjects identified by Tamara Lanier as her great-great-great-grandfather Renty, whom she calls “Papa Renty," and his daughter Delia will be transferred from the Peabody Museum ...
The Connecticut Mirror10d
Harvard will relinquish early photos of slaves, ending long legal battle with CT woman
The photos of the subjects identified by Tamara Lanier as her great-great-great-grandfather Renty, whom she calls “Papa Renty,” and his daughter Delia will be transferred from the Peabody ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette11d
Harvard to return 175-year-old photos to museum
The photos of the subjects identified by Tamara Lanier as her great-great-great-grandfather Renty, whom she calls "Papa Renty," and his daughter, Delia, will be transferred from the Peabody Museum ...