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Rogers [Harriet Beecher Stowe's winter home]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01584.02 Author/Creator: Rogers Place Written: Mandarin, Florida Type: Photograph Date: circa 1867-1884 Pagination: 1 cabinet card Height: 16.5 cm, Width: 11 cm Order a Copy

Cabinet card showing the winter home of the Stowes with four people sitting on the front lawn, including Harriet Beecher Stowe and her husband, Professor Calvin Stowe. Inscription on verso states the house has been torn down. Inscribed "For my friend Chas G. Ball[illegible] / Fm. Mercer[?] / Apr 6-1914."

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Stowe, Calvin Ellis, 1802-1886

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