Ethel Worthington

Ethel Worthington was an extraordinary woman in her time. She was an artist and photographer and one of the few black people allowed to display her works at the World Columbian Exposition in 1893. Generally speaking, black people were excluded from all other aspects of the fair from planning to employment. She was not only an artist and photographer, she painted bone China for the Marshall Fields Company. She did everything from start to finish – fired it; glazed it; and painted it. She later went on to sell and display art work at the Chicago Marshall Fields Store on State Street in Chicago. The photo above is as she appeared on the cover of The Pullman Porter's Review magazine in the October 1916 edition.

Source: Information and photograph provided by her nephew Kenneth Worthington