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Black and white photographic portrait of "Catharine Adams Little" seated facing front wearing dark, long-sleeved dress w/ belt and white cap; right hand holding spectacles and left arm resting on a table w/ gadrooned edge. Subject probably about 75 years old. Molded and veneered wood frame w/ inner gilded frame; recessed off-white mat.
portraits
photographs
prints (visual works)
gelatin silver prints
silver (metal)
old age
Silver Print
Old age
Print, Photographic
Printed in lower right and label on back. Lower right: ""NOTMAN PHOTO CO./BOSTON"" Label: ""BIGELOW & JORDAN,/ IMPORTERS/PUBLISHERS/MANUFACTURERS/11 Bromfield Street;--641-643 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Mass., U.S.A./No. 17687 B""
Little, Catherine Adams, 1823-1923
Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),
Notman Photo Co. (Boston, Mass.) (Photographic studio)
Bigelow & Jordan (Framer)
Boston, MA, USA
23 x 19 x 0.75 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Amelia W. Little
1986.217
Massachusetts (United States)
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