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Mary Seacole, British-Jamaican Nurse

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Title: Mary Seacole, British-Jamaican Nurse

Caption: Marble bust of Mary Seacole by Henry Weekes, from 1859. Seacole (1805-1881) was a British-Jamaican businesswoman and nurse. During the Crimean War, she ran a hotel and tended to the wounded. Her autobiography, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857), is one of the earliest autobiographies of a mixed-race woman. In 2004 she was voted the greatest black Briton.

Credit: Album / Science Source / Getty Research Institute

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Image size: 2180 × 2771 px | 17.3 MB

Print size: 18.5 × 23.5 cm | 858.3 × 1090.9 in (300 dpi)

Keywords: 19TH CENTURY • BIRACIAL • BLACK • BRITISH • BRITISH-JAMAICAN • BUST (SCULPTURE) • BUST • CELEBRITIES • CELEBRITY • CREOLE • CRIMEA • CRIMEAN WAR • FAMOUS PEOPLE • FAMOUS • HALF BREED • HALF-BREED • HALF-CASTE • HERM, BUST • HISTORY • MARBLE BUST • MARY JANE SEACOLE • MARY SEACOLE • MEDICINE • MIXED RACE • MIXED-RACE • MULTIETHNIC • NURSE • PERSON • PERSONALITY • WOMAN