Newly Discovered Photograph of Harriet Tubman Goes on Display

Maybe the National Treasury can use this image for their new Twenties.

Via The New York Times:

The photograph, on view at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, is significant because it shows a young Tubman casually seated in a chair wearing an elegant dress with an elaborate bodice and full skirt. Other surviving photographs of Tubman show her looking stern or pensive and, in her later years, frail and wan.

“What this photograph does is humanize Harriet Tubman,” said Lonnie G. Bunch III, the founding director of the museum. “The photograph shows her stylish and in the vibrancy of her youth.”

In 2016, then-Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew proposed that Tubman replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. The proposal has stalled under the Trump administration.

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If you are tired of the treasury dragging its feet you can turn your own twenties into Tubman’s!