Tintype portrait of a woman in a striped dress

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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.

Tintype depicting portrait of a woman in striped dress. The woman faces straight ahead, her gaze slightly to the right of the camera. She wears oval hoop earrings and an embroidered net hair covering, with curls of hair loose at the nape of her neck. The tintype is in a white cardboard cover with an oval opening to frame the portrait. The outside of the oval frame is decorated.

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