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Black and white bust length photograph of a young woman w/ wire frame glasses, wearing a frothy white dress, puffed sleeves, squarish necklace, and hair tied up in a knot; w/in a scalloped edged silver faced frame w/ rows of repousse(?) beading along outer edge and edge of rectangular opening; repousse petal-like devices at corners; wood back and stand. (A table frame).
portraits
photographs
photographs
busts (figures)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
women (female humans)
Picture
Portrait
Woman
Portrait
Stamped and inscribed in ink on back of photo: ""Alice M. Arnold/ Xmas 1894"" Silver face of frame hammered: ""----RLING/ 125"" and ""RL(?)""
Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),
Alice M. Arnold
Unknown
6.75 x 5.25 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Amelia W. Little
1986.365
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