Second photo of Harriet Tubman surfaces in as many months

Alex Green, owner of Harriet Tubman Tours, told The Auburn Citizen the 1892 photo comes from an edition of The Household Magazine.

Tubman is pictured wearing a dark dress with a decorative collar and a hair pin. Below the photo, she is referred to as "Harriet, the Modern Moses, now living in Auburn, N.Y."

An article with the photo includes a lengthy quote from Tubman about her visit as a teen to the Bucktown General Store in Dorchester County, Maryland, where she was struck in the head by a 2-pound weight thrown by a slaveowner at another enslaved person. The weight fractured her skull, resulting in epilepsy and what she believed were spiritual visions that she experienced for the rest of her life.

Green noted that the quote is an example of "plantation dialect," which racistly stylizes the speech of Black people. 

Tubman biographer Kate Clifford Larson posted the photo on her Facebook page on Wednesday, calling the civil rights icon "beautiful" and commenting, "such style!" The biographer thanked Green and his wife, Lisa, for finding the photo. In comments below her post, Larson expressed hope that the original could be found as well.

Harriet Tubman Tours previously released a rare photo of the group's namesake in December. That photo, from 1908, pictured her standing in front of her home on South Street in Auburn. 

Green said he hopes the photos generate more interest in Tubman, her life and her work to achieve freedom for all.

"I thought it'd be interesting to move the needle forward with her wonderful life," he told The Citizen in December. "History has so much to catch up to."