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The hidden story of two African American women looking out from the pages of a 19th-century book

  • Written by Kate Clarke Lemay, Historian, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Mary E. Harper (left) and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (right), whose two photos in 'Atlanta Offering' are unusual. Unidentified Artist, 1895, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library, Emory University, Author provided

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