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Title	Matilda Jane Dunbar Photographs
Subject	African American Ohioans Ohio Women Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906
Place	Dayton (Ohio) Montgomery County (Ohio)
Description	The mother of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, Matilda Jane Dunbar, is shown in these two 7.5" x 9.5" (19.05 x 24.13 cm) photographs. Dunbar was born a slave in Fayette County, Kentucky and listened to her master read poetry to his family in the evenings. After her marriage to Wilson W. Murphy of Louisville ended, and soon after the Civil War, she married Joshua Dunbar. The couple moved to Dayton, Ohio, but separated in 1874. Mrs. Dunbar supported her children by washing clothes for local white families, including the family of Wilbur and Orville Wright. She was determined that Paul Laurence Dunbar should receive an education and inspired his love of poetry. Matilda Jane Dunbar died in 1934. Paul Laurence Dunbar is acknowledged as the first significant African American poet in the United States. He was born on June 27, 1872 in Dayton, Ohio. After high school, the Wright brothers assisted Dunbar in publishing the Dayton Tattler, an African-American newspaper. His first book of poetry, Oak and Ivy, was published in 1893. It was followed by Lyrics of a Lowly Life, and Majors and Minors, ten other books of poetry, four books of short stories, five novels and a play. Dunbar died of tuberculosis on February 9, 1906.
Creator	Reece, Jane, 1869-1961
Date of Original	1924 circa
Collection	Paul Laurence Dunbar Collection http://home.dayton.lib.oh.us/archives/dunbar/DTABCONTENTS.html (for more information on the Paul Laurence Dunbar Collection)
Source	Audiovisual material Box 3, Folder 2
Submitting Institution	Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library
Type	StillImage; 1924
Format	picture

Title	Om215_786119_007
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om215_786119_007.tif
Image Height	3826
Image Width	3005
File Size	995.48 KB

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