Cabinet card studio portrait of a young woman seated with a book

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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 cabinet card of a young woman seated on a chair. The photograph is in portrait orientation. The unidentified women is sitting with her body is facing the viewer and her head tilted and turned slightly towards the right. She is smiling and looking into the distance towards the right. She is holding the fore edge of a thin book propped up in her lap with her proper right hand and her proper left hand is resting on her proper left thigh. She is wearing a white, long sleeve, V-neck blouse accented with thin, vertical, lace panels down the left and right sides of her chest. She is also wearing and a dark tone, pleated, full skirt with a wide waistband. Her hair is pulled back into a chignon and she is wearing a collar length pearl necklace. She is seated in an ornately carved wooden chair.

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