Title	Catherine Hunt
Alternate Title	Portrait of Catherine Hunt Holding Hunt Child
Date	ca. 1852-1854
Genre	Photographs
Material/Technique	Tintype
Description	This round black and white photograph depicts a young African American woman holding a white baby.
Historical note	Catherine Hunt was a slave to the William Hunt Family of Memphis prior to the Civil War. This photograph shows her as a smiling young woman holding a happy white baby close to her chest and nestling his or her head with her cheek.The Hunt home was an imposing brick mansion on the outskirts of downtown Memphis. It served as temporary residence for both Confederate and Union officers during the war and is also thought to have been a Freedmen's School for several years afterwards. Perhaps Catherine had the opportunity to attend the school or even to teach there as Memphis received a large population of ex-slaves from the surrounding area during and after the war.
Subject	African American women; Women slaves; Education
Theme	Making Music Building a Future
Story	Jubilee Singers McKissacks
Geographic Location	United States--Tennessee--Memphis
Time period	1850-1859
Language	eng
Rights	Images reproduced on this website are intended for individual, educational use only. For research inquiries about specific objects or requests for high resolution images, contact the Tennessee State Museum.
Type	Still image
Format	image/jpg
Contributing Institution	Tennessee State Museum
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Archival file	shades3/shades_tsm_0023.jpg