Portrait of Nannie Helen Burroughs
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Object Details
- Date
- 1978 photograph of portrait photograph dated c. 1910
- Author
- Hofmeister, Richard K
- Subject
- National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
- National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Notes
- Featured in the "Torch," April 1978
- Summary
- Portrait of Nannie Helen Burroughs (1878-1961), on display at the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History. Burroughs was a nationally prominent Black educator, church leader, and suffrage supporter, who founded the National Training School for Women.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 2
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- Topic
- Burroughs, Nannie Helen
- African Americans
- Women
- Portraits
- Teachers
- Educators
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Standard number
- 78-3850A-7A
- Type
- Photographic print
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8 x 10; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic print
- Metadata Usage
- Usage conditions apply
- Record ID
- siris_sic_8612