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Cabinet card of two unidentified women and a boy by J. P. Ball & Son

1887-1900

Helena, Lewis and Clark County, Montana, 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 black-and-white photograph of two unidentified women and an unidentified boy photographed at the J. P. Ball & Son studio in Helena, Montana. The photograph is mounted on light-colored pasteboard with the name and location of the photo studio printed on the front along the bottom. The portrait is a vignette. The boy is posed between the two women. He wears a dark suit jacket and a watch chain. The women both wear dark dresses and decorative hair ornaments. The woman on the boy's right is leaning her head towards him and they both look at the camera, while the woman at the proper left looks out of frame to her right. The reverse is blank.

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Catalog reference: 2014.37.28.57

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