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Cabinet photograph of a woman

ca. 1885

Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas, 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 gelatin silver chloride printing-out paper print on cabinet card of an unidentified woman posed for a studio portrait. Captured in studio with a veranda and nature themed backdrop, a dark-haired woman wears a floor length plaid dress with narrow bodice, and a dark, fitted, long sleeve coat. Her proper left hand rests on an ornate column prop and she stands on a fibrous rug-like object. At the bottom of the photograph card, from left to right in brown in is: [FORT SMITH,C. C. Cook,ARKANSAS.]. There are serveral numerical inscriptions on the reverse of the cabinet card.

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Catalog reference: 2013.244.11

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