Underground Railroad Smyth-Packard House Cabinet Card Maine History Rare Slavery surreal with a chance that the

with a chance that the tax stamp one was taken in Grass Valley

so finding one with its original cover affixed is a rarity

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Underground Railroad Smyth-Packard House Cabinet Card Maine History Rare Slavery surreal with a chance that theRare original cabinet card showing the Smyth Packard House in the 1880s. It is now The Bowdoin College Russwurm African American Center, located at 6 College St. in Brunswick, Maine . It was originally built in 1827 for Alpheus Spring Packard Sr., who in 1836 sold half to William Smyth. William Smyth was an abolitionist, education reformer & amateur architect, and used this home to hide slaves escaping to Canada. Packard was a professor for more than