Plush brown frame w/ doors opening to reveal carte-de visite portrait of a woman. Head and shoulders photograph of a young lady w/ her brown hair pulled back in a bun and curly bangs. She wears a white lace collar and white earrings.
portraits
photographs
albumen (egg white)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
women (female humans)
Albumen
Woman
PICTURE, PORTRAIT
Printed on back of photograph: ""Metcalf and Welldon,/ Photographers,/ 503 Washington St. Cor. West,/ Successors to Whipple./ Boston.""
Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),
Miss Jane Armstrong Tucker
Metcalf & Welldon (Maker (Photographers))
Boston, MA, USA
5.75 x 4.75 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker
1998.2199
Massachusetts (United States)
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