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Autograph Album William Wells Brown (c.1814-1884)

Mr. Tynes

Museum of African American History, Boston and Nantucket

Museum of African American History, Boston and Nantucket
Boston, United States

Cambridge resident Mr. Tynes collected autographs of some of the nation’s leading abolitionists. Tynes approached activists like Lewis Hayden more than ten years after the Civil War, revealing the high esteem in which they were held. Once deemed radical, Boston’s abolitionists were celebrated for their work during the decades following the war.

The Tyneses were an African American family living at 166 Haywood Street in Cambridge in the early 1880s. It is not clear if the album was compiled by caterer Timothy Tynes or his son, Timothy G. Tynes, who was a medical student at the time.

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  • Title: Autograph Album William Wells Brown (c.1814-1884)
  • Creator: Mr. Tynes
  • Date Created: 1879/1884
  • Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Transcript:
    An active worker of the Vigilance Committee
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  • Rights: No known rights restrictions. Credit: Museum of African American History, Boston and Nantucket, 15
  • Medium: Manuscript
Museum of African American History, Boston and Nantucket

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