This copy photo shows a 1850 Daguerreotype of Renty, a South Carolina slave who Tamara Lanier, of Norwich, Conn., said is her family’s patriarch. PHOTO ...

Those seeking irrefutable proof of the power of an image should look no further than the yearslong, highly publicized dispute over a selection of 1850 daguerreotypes of enslaved Southerners.

Harvard University will relinquish ownership of the earliest known photographs of enslaved people as part of a historic legal ...

To a South Carolina museum, in a long-awaited legal battle conclusion, Harvard will give up a collection containing 175-year-old photos of Black slaves in the U.S. South. These are the earliest ...

Harvard University has agreed to transfer ownership of the earliest known photographs of enslaved people to Tamara Lanier, a descendant of one of the subjects, as part of a landmark legal settlement ...

Harvard University will transfer photos of enslaved people to a S.C. museum after legal challenges from a woman who believes she is a descendant ...

Harvard University will transfer photos of enslaved people to a S.C. museum after legal challenges from a woman who believes ...

A Norwich woman is claiming victory Thursday night after Harvard agrees to relinquish possession of early photographs of ...

The university has agreed to relinquish ownership of two 175-year-old daguerreotypes of an enslaved father named Renty and ...

The Cambridge institution has agreed to relinquish the images and has offered plaintiff Tamara Lanier a confidential monetary ...