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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…

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…

Harriet Tubman statue in Auburn, New York, shows the abolitionist carrying a lantern and a pistol tucked into her waistband.
The seven-and-half foot tall (2.3 meters) bronze statue represents a young Harriet Tubman, traveling on the Underground Railroad. Clothed in nineteenth-century shawl, jacket, pleated skirt, and a pistol tucked into her satchel. Tubman strides forward…

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…

Photograph of Harriet Tubman statue at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland.
The bronze statue of Harriet Tubman is placed on a concrete base. Tubman wears a nineteenth-century inspired dress that she lifts with her left hand, creating a rippling effect in the bronze cloth. On her left shoulder sits a saw-whet owl, at her…

Photograph of a bust portrait of Harriet Tubman, made from concrete and positioned on a black granite plinth at the British Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada-Salem Chapel, St. Catharines, Ontario.
The half-bust portrait of Harriet Tubman, made from concrete, rests on a rectangular plinth made of polished black marble bearing her name and an inscription. Tubman is depicted wearing her signature headscarf, with a wrap covering her shoulders. The…

Photograph of Harriet Tubman memorial at the Harriet Tubman Public School, Saint Catherines, Ontario. View of interior courtyard with Harriet Tubman statue placed on a six-pointed stars, and gold stars along the upper brick wall.
The bronze portrait sculpture of Harriet Tubman rests on a large rectangular plinth made of brick and stone. Tubman, wearing her signature headscarf, is depicted seated on a wooden chair, holding a closed book in her hands as she gazes into the…

Henry "Box" Brown Memorial at the Box Brown Plaza along the Richmond Canal Walk in Richmond, Virginia.
The memorial commemorates Henry "Box" Brown's harrowing journey to freedom. On March 23, 1849, with the assistance of James Caesar Anthony Smith, a freedman and white abolitionist, Samuel Alexander Smith, Brown shipped himself in a two-by-three-foot…

Photograph of I Am Queen Mary statue. The statue is an allegorical portrait of Mary Thomas, known as Queen Mary, an enslaved woman who worked on a sugar cane planation in the Danish West Indies (now Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands). She led the largest labor revolt in Danish colonial history, the "Fireburn" Uprising in 1878.
The statue is an allegorical portrait of Mary Thomas, known as Queen Mary, an enslaved woman who worked on a sugar cane planation in the Danish West Indies (now Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands). She led the largest labor revolt in Danish colonial…

Photograph of the In Memory of More Than 400 Prominent United States Colored Troops from Kent County memorial in Chestertown, Maryland. The memorial takes the form of a black granite obelisk.
The black granite obelisk is dedicated to the memory of more than 400 United States Colored Troops from Kent County, Maryland, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. In front of the obelisk is a stone bench with an additional engraving.
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