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Pair of cut-outs, black; background behind buff paper; head and top of shoulders are life-size; the hair is done high with a comb; standing ruff collar around the neck; the lace on the edge is done with pen and ink, as are small curls on the forehead.
silhouettes
ink
paper (fiber product)
Silhouette
On 976.1 and 976.1 on a jelly label with pen in the upper left of the backing: ""A good/possibility"" by Ruth H./Bascom-/Fr. Greenfield/Mass/""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.967.1,2
Bascom, Ruth Henshaw, 1772-1848 (Maker)
16 x 11 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.967.1-2
Massachusetts (United States)
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