Historical Portrait
Jubilee singers, Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.
Archive record
1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; photo 9.9 x 14 cm, on mount 10.9 x 16.7 cm (cabinet format) | Photo shows a studio group portrait of the Fisk University Jubilee Singers, with (from l. to r.) Minnie Tate, Greene Evans, Isaac Dickerson, Jennie Jackson, Maggie Porter, Ella Sheppard, Thomas Rutling, Benjamin Holmes, and Eliza Walker.
About this photograph
This albumen print, created by the American Missionary Association and James Wallace Black in 1872, shows nine members of the Fisk University Jubilee Singers arranged for a studio portrait in cabinet card format. The individuals pictured are identified in the caption as Minnie Tate, Greene Evans, Isaac Dickerson, Jennie Jackson, Maggie Porter, Ella Sheppard, Thomas Rutling, Benjamin Holmes, and Eliza Walker, listed from left to right.
The photograph's creation date and the names of those pictured are documented, but no further information about the singers, the group's activities, or the circumstances of this portrait session is available in the archive record.
Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.
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