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Carte-de-visite portrait of a young woman wearing plaid

1865-1888

Napa, California, 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 sepia tone carte-de-visite of a young woman in a plaid dress looking left. Captured seated in front of a plain wall, a young lady poses for her portrait wearing a small feathered hat atop her updo. There is an earring in her proper left ear and a beaded necklace around her high-collared plaid jacket-dress. On the reverse of the carte-de-visite is the graphite inscription “Jennings” along with several numerical inscriptions and the photographer’s imprint: [BRAYTON, / Napa, - - - Cal.].

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Catalog reference: 2020.10.10.7

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