Historical Photograph: Miss [Elizabeth] Botume & Miss [Fanny] Lanford's Button

Elizabeth Botume

Historical Photograph: Miss [Elizabeth] Botume & Miss [Fanny] Lanford's Button

c. 1868

Historical Photograph

The University of North Carolina presents a photo (c. 1868), by Hubbard & Mix Photographers, that shows Elizabeth Hyde Botume - a White missionary teacher who was sent to teach newly freed people in the South Carolina Sea Islands during the Port Royal Experiment - and Fanny Lanford seated in a horse and buggy outside of a school in Beaufort, South Carolina.

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University of North Carolina (Contributor: Penn Center)

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