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Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of Bethune Cookman College

ca. 1930-1958

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Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of Bethune Cookman College
  • Title
  • Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of Bethune Cookman College
  • Creator
  • Harris, Charles Teenie
  • Date
  • ca. 1930-1958
  • Identifier
  • 1996.69.431
  • Source Identifier
  • Carnegie Museum of Art 1996.69.431
  • Description
  • A portrait of Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955), the founder of the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls (Bethune Cookman College). She was also Director of Negro Affairs in the National Youth Administration from 1936-1944, and appointed consultant on interracial affairs and understanding at the charter conference of the U.N. Founder of the National Council of Negro Women, and Vice-president of the NAACP. She is shown here sitting behind a table decorated with flowers. She is wearing a large floral corsage on a plain dark dress.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955.
    Women--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    African Americans--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Portraits--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Flowers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Interiors--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Teenie Harris Photograph Collection, 1920-1970
  • Contributor
  • Carnegie Museum of Art
  • Collection
  • Teenie Harris Photographs
  • Rights Information
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  • Rights Holder
  • Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh