Mary Evans Wilson
- Collection Photographer
- Apeda Studio (New York, N.Y.)
- Camuzzi, M.
- Harris & Ewing
- Collection Creator
- Sommariva, Emilio, Photographer, 1883-1956
- Harris, Fred (photographer)
- Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
- Place
- Boston (Mass.)
- Topic
- Educators
- African Americans
- Portraits -- African American women
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- Evans-Tibbs Collection
- Evans-Tibbs Collection / Series 5: Photographs / Family / Evans Family
- Biographical / Historical
- Mary P. Evans Wilson (circa 1867- 1928) was an African American educator and clubwoman active in fighting discrimination in the Boston education school system. She was born in Oberlin, Ohio to Henrietta Leary (1827-1908) and Henry Evans (1817-1886). Mary taught a short time in the District of Columbia school system, like her sister, Anna Evans Murray (1857-1955). She married Bostonian attorney Butler Roland Wilson in 1894. She was the paternal aunt of opera singer Lillian Evanti.
- Extent
- 1 Item (6 x 4 inches)
- Date
- circa 1897
- Container
- Box 7, Folder 11
- Archival Repository
- Anacostia Community Museum Archives
- Identifier
- ACMA.06-016, Item PH2003.7063.396
- Type
- Archival materials
- Photographs
- Photographs
- Photographic prints
- Collection Citation
- Evans-Tibbs collection, Anacostia Community Museum,Smithsonian Institution, gift Thurlow E. Tibbs, Jr. Estate
- Collection Rights
- Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
- Genre/Form
- Photographs
- Photographic prints
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist at acmarchives@si.edu.
