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1999
GUSN-170023
Hepsibeth Hemingway was a cook and laundress who, although she lived on the margins of Worcester, Massachusetts, society, had a legacy that lived on past her death. Her painting, which hangs in the Worcester Historical Museum, helped to preserve her story.
Article ID 585
SC001
Old-Time New England
SC001.1999.077.267.003
Hepsibeth Hemingway was a cook and laundress who, although she lived on the margins of Worcester, Massachusetts, society, had a legacy that lived on past her death. Her painting, which hangs in the Worcester Historical Museum, helped to preserve her story.
Volume 77, Number 267 (Fall/Winter 1999)
Holly V. Izard (Author)
(1999). Old Time New England. Boston, Mass.: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.
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Boston, Mass.
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Old Time New England
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