Notice for a meeting of the Harriet Tubman Union in Boston: Museum Object and Cultural History
Notice for a meeting of the Harriet Tubman Union in Boston: Date: May 3, 1910. Written by: L. A. Smith, American. Subject of: Harriet Tubman Union, American, founded 1910.
The object in the museum catalogue
This Harriet Tubman Union meeting notice postcard is a rectangular piece of cardboard with handwriting on one side. There are seven lines of text. For full transcription, please see Notes. On the opposite side is a postal stamp that consists of a circle with text inside that reads "BOSTON/ MAY 3/ 10-PM/ 1910/MASS." Next to the circle is a flag with the words "ESSEX STREET STATION." Underneath is a rectangle with text "THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS ONLY." There is a one cent McKinley stamp in the upper right corner.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: May 3, 1910
- Written by: L. A. Smith, American
- Subject of: Harriet Tubman Union, American, founded 1910
- Type: postcards
- Medium: ink on cardboard
- Dimensions: H x W: 3 1/4 × 5 1/2 in. (8.2 × 13.9 cm)
- Place used: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: Communities
- Topic: Social reform
- Topic: Societies
- Topic: Women
- Object number: 2015.248.3.2
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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