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Wonderful portrait! There seem to be lots of notes devoted to the fame of her graduating, but I wonder what happened to her and what she was able to do with her life?

tragically, it wasn't that long: "Alberta Virginia Scott, a resident of Cambridgeport, was the first African American graduate of Radcliffe College. Alberta was born near Richmond, Virginia, the daughter of Smith and Fanny Bunch Scott. When she was six years old, her family moved to Cambridge, where they lived in several locations in the "lower Port," a traditionally black neighborhood near Kendall Square that has been replaced with office buildings. Her father, a boiler tender and stationary engineer, was a deacon at the Union Baptist Church on Main Street As a child, Scott devoted herself to intensive study. From the time she entered elementary school, it was said that she had a studious disposition. At Union Baptist, she taught Sunday school under the guidance of her friend Charlotte Hawkins. Scott graduated with distinction from the Cambridge Latin School in 1894 and entered Radcliffe College, where she studied science and the classics and belonged to the Idler and German clubs. Radcliffe had no dormitories at that time, so during her first two years there she lived with an African American family on Parker Street. In her senior year, she lived at home at 28 Union Street. When she finished college in 1898, she was only the fourth African American to graduate from a women’s college in Massachusetts. Scott decided that it was her duty to teach African American children in the South rather than stay in Massachusetts. At first she taught in an Indianapolis high school, but in 1900 Booker T. Washington recruited her to teach at the Tuskegee Institute. Scott’s promising future was tragically cut short. After a year in Alabama, she fell sick and returned to Cambridge, where she died at her parents’ home at 37 Hubbard Avenue on August 30, 1902. Charlotte Hawkins sang at her funeral. which was conducted by the Reverend Jesse Harrell of the Union Baptist Church." www2.cambridgema.gov/historic/aahmonth.html#WEEK_THREE:

A beautiful portrait and a remarkable woman. Thanks Cambridge Historical Commission.

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"Miles Franklin (born Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin; 1879 – 1954) was an Australian writer and feminist, who is best known for her autobiographical novel, My Brilliant Career, published in 1901. While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, All That Swagger, was not published until 1936. "She has had a long-lasting impact on Australian literary life through her endowment of a major literary award known as the Miles Franklin Award." –Wikipedia Notes on this photograph from Margot Riley:

"This portrait shows Miles Franklin at the age of 22. It was taken in 1902, the year following the publication of My Brilliant Career ... "This image was shot in Goulburn, New South Wales, at local photographer Hy Dorner’s Elite Studio, and records the young celebrity author, modishly attired in a figure-hugging, tailored riding habit and holding a riding crop in her tightly gloved hands. Her hair is tied back and hanging behind her, most probably in a long braid. The photograph is signed by Franklin—‘Merrily Miles’—her favoured epithet at the time."

Now on Wikimedia Commons

fantastic

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beautiful dress!!!!! beautiful woman.. una amazzone :)

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The owner and dog look very similar...no?

Photo caption from S & S: "A cabinet card portrait of John Owen, a sadler from Montgomeryshire, Wales, pictured with his dog, Blueman, taken at the studio of F. Davey, Gloucester, in about 1900."

They make a nice pair :)

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Like two peas in a pod.