Susannah Singleton

Description:

Portrait photograph of Susannah Singleton mounted to a partially deckle-edged matte board. She is wearing a two piece dress with leg o' mutton sleeves on the bodice. The photographer has posed her seated in a wicker chair next to a floral arrangement on a covered table. Photographer's mark at bottom front, "Snyder's Cottage Gallery" and handwritten notation on reverse, "Savannah/Susannah Singleton 'Manny' aka 'Nanny' former slave, wife of Jacob D. Singleton, jailkeeper of Sumter County Jail area, 1880?"

Gift of Vernon Jackson Harris, Jr., grandson of Theodosia Elizabeth Cox Gordon Robinson. Information from donor, "She is the paternal grandmother to Edna Singleton Jackson and Ethel Robinson Broome."

• Title: Susannah Singleton
• Photographer: Snyder Gallery
• Date: c. 1880

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• Collection: Photograph Collection
• Object Name: Theodosia Cox Gordon Robinson Family
• Object Id: 2007.56.48

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  • Freed enslaved people
  • Nannies (Children's nurses)
  • Women