The Story of the Jubilee Singers
National Portrait Gallery
The Story of the Jubilee Singers
- Artist
- Unidentified Artist
- Sitter
- Ella Sheppard Moore, 1851 - 1914
- Fisk Jubilee Singers
- Exhibition Label
- In 1871, in an effort to raise funds for Fisk University, a newly founded African American university in Nashville, Tennessee, a student singing group was formed, soon to be called the Fisk Jubilee Singers. The group, composed mostly of formerly enslaved individuals, became instantly popular, and their concert tours were soon raising substantial amounts of money. They appeared at the White House before President Ulysses S. Grant; toured the British Isles, where they performed before for Queen Victoria; and raised enough money to finance Fisk's first permanent building, Jubilee Hall.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- 1875
- Object number
- NPG.2002.92
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Photograph
- Medium
- Carbon print
- Dimensions
- Image/Sheet: 8.8 x 13.5cm (3 7/16 x 5 5/16")
- Case Open: 20 x 57.8 x 2.5cm (7 7/8 x 22 3/4 x 1")
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Autograph
- Book
- Interior\Studio\Photography
- Fisk Jubilee Singers: Male
- Fisk Jubilee Singers: Female
- Ella Sheppard Moore: Female
- Ella Sheppard Moore: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Singer
- Ella Sheppard Moore: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Pianist
- Ella Sheppard Moore: Education\Educator\Teacher\Music
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.2002.92
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4493442d5-2ff4-44f9-b67d-61cef1b5cc5c
