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We hope you enjoyed reading our Zine about Edmonia Lewis.
Many thanks to our team of public historians who made this happen:
Maci, Enzo, Lin, Toni, Matisse, and Joan.
And thank you to Arielle Gray and Ifé Franklin for your support.
Below you can find the image credits:
Image Credits
A: Edmonia Lewis, Robert Gould Shaw (1864). Museum of African American History, Boston and Nantucket, 154. Accessed May 28, 2026, https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/robert-gould-shaw-lewis-edmonia-c-1845-c-1911/IwEMajlB2m1Ycw.
B: Edmonia Lewis, Forever Free (1869). Howard University, Fine Arts Collection. https://georgiamuseum.org/temporary-artworks/forever-free/.
C: Edmonia Lewis, Hiawatha's Marriage (1871). Cincinnati Art Museum. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%27Hiawatha%27s_Marriage%27,_marble_sculpture_by_Edmonia_Lewis,_1871.JPG.
D: Edmonia Lewis, Portrait of a Woman (1873). Saint Louis Art Museum, American Art Collection. https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/29143/.
E: Edmonia Lewis, Minnehaha (1868). The Met Fifth Avenue, The American Wing. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/687677.
F: John H. Fitzgibbon. Daguerreotype of actors Charlotte Cushman (1816-1876) and Matilda Hays (1820-1897) (Dated 1858 by source). TC-19, Harvard Theatre Collection, Harvard University. Accessed May 28, 2026, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harvard_Theatre_Collection_-_Charlotte_Cushman_and_Matilda_Hays_TC-19.jpg.
G: Edmonia Lewis, The Death of Cleopatra (1876), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Historical Society of Forest Park. https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/death-cleopatra-33878.
H: JR Roberts; Barbara Smith (foreword). Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography. [Tallahassee, Florida]: The Naiad Press, Inc., 1981. First edition. Photo courtesy of Leland Little Auctions, accessed May 18, 2025. https://www.lelandlittle.com/items/608495/the-scarce-annotated-bibliography-i-black-lesbians-i?listId=254769.
I: JR Roberts; Barbara Smith (foreword). Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography. [Tallahassee, Florida]: The Naiad Press, Inc., 1981. First edition. pp.47.
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