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Unidentified woman

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02745.103 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1877 Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w Height: 7.3 cm, Width: 11 cm Order a Copy

Her hair is pulled back and she wears a button down dress.

Fellows, Enoch Q., fl. 1843-1918

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