Untitled (Portrait of Lavinia Whalen Baxter)

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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 portrait of a girl with a white and blue ribbon in her long brown hair and brown eyes, looking directly at the viewer. She is in a white dress and holding a teddy bear under her left arm. The painting is framed in a brown wooden frame. The part of the frame closest to the painting is painted gold with an ornate design carved in it. The back of the frame has brown backing paper taped down with duct tape along three sides. Across the top of the back is a metal wire used to hang the frame. At the bottom center of the back is a gold foil label which reads [Franklin’s Custom Frames 676 S. 5th at Broadway Louisville, KY 40202 (502) 581-9078].

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