The settlement comes after a 15 year legal battle between the university and a Connecticut woman who claims she is a descendant of the people pictured.

Lanier of Connecticut has complained that Harvard has profited over the years off of the photos. "Harvard played a role in the darkest chapter in American history,'' she said in a statement.

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs of Renty Taylor and his daughter Delia. The photos were believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people and will be given to a South ...

BOSTON — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part ...

The nude photos of Renty and his daughter, Delia, taken in March 1850 against their will for a Harvard University professor, were the subject of a 2019 lawsuit filed by Tamara Lanier against Harvard.

Harvard University will relinquish ownership of the earliest known photographs of enslaved people as part of a historic legal settlement announced May 28 by nationally renowned civil rights ...

Harvard University will relinquish photographs of enslaved people to the International African American Museum (IAAM) in Charleston, S.C., in a settlement reached on Wednesday, May 28.

The daguerreotypes, an early photographic process, were taken to support “polygenism,” which falsely states that African-descended people are inferior to White people.

Harvard University has agreed to give up ownership of photos of an enslaved father and his daughter who were forced ... "Harvard played a role in the darkest chapter in American history," Lanier ...

BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as ...