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Cabinet card of Mrs. Millie Gibson Hale

ca. 1905

Smithsonian NMAAHC collection

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A cabinet photograph of Mrs. Millie E. Hale by an unknown photographer. Hale is captured from the waist up and is looking forward and slightly to the left. She is wearing a dress with ruffled shoulders and a flower-piece on her proper left shoulder. In her hair is a hairpiece on her proper left side. Hale was co-founder of the Millie E. Hale Hospital in Nashville, TN in 1916. On the back, the sitter's name in pencil at the top center [Mrs Millie Gibson Hale].

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Catalog reference: 2011.36.87

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