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Cabinet card of G. A. Lipscomb

ca. 1880

Winchester, Franklin County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America

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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 card photograph of G. A. Lipscomb taken by Richards Photography in Winchester, Tennessee. Lipscomb is fully captured is posed standing, wearing a floor-length dark color skirt and a light color long-sleeve shirt. She is standing in the midst of branches shaped like a fence. The background has light vegetation on the sides and ground, imitating an outside scenery. On the front of the photograph in the bottom margin in printed text on information on the photography studio [Richards, EXTRA FINISH. WINCHESTER, TENN.]. On the back, the sitter's name in pencil at the top center [G. A. Lipscomb].

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Catalog reference: 2011.36.89

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