Centuries-old images of an enslaved man and his daughter, believed to be the earliest-known photographs of enslaved people in the United States, were relinquished by Harvard University after a 15 ...

A legal battle between Harvard and a woman who says two slave portraits are of her ancestors will end in a settlement, with the photos going to a Black history museum in South Carolina.

Harvard Relinquishes Photos of Enslaved People, Capping 15-Year Legal Struggle. Headline May 29, 2025. Link copied. Harvard has agreed to hand over 175-year-old photographs of an enslaved man and ...

Harvard University has agreed to transfer ownership of the earliest known photographs of enslaved people to Tamara Lanier, a descendant of one of the subjects, as part of a landmark legal ...

Harvard relinquishes 1850 portraits of enslaved Renty, Delia: Photos headed to SC museum. Nina Tran. ... Here's what to know about the history behind the earliest known slave photographs.

FILE PHOTO: A man uses his phone to take video of Tamara Lanier speak to the media about a lawsuit accusing Harvard University of the monetization of photographic images of her great-great-great ...

After years of legal challenges, photos of an enslaved man and his daughter held at a Harvard University museum will be transferred to an African American museum in South Carolina where the family ...

Now, the photos of Delia, Renty, and others in Harvard’s custody for nearly two centuries are expected to be transferred to the International African American Museum in Charleston, South ...

Harvard University reached a settlement Wednesday with the descendants of enslaved people who had their photos taken by a university professor back in the 1800s. Tamara Lanier, the great-great ...

Harvard University agreed in a settlement to transfer photographs of enslaved people to an African American history museum. Tamara Lanier sued the Ivy League in 2019 for the exploitation of those ...

The daguerreotypes, an early photographic process, were taken to support “polygenism,” which falsely states that African-descended people are inferior to White people.