Emma Manigault

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Description:

Carte de visite of Emma Manigault. She is wearing a dress with long dropped sleeves and belted at the waist. Her hair is styled with a middle part and pulled smoothly back into a snood. Charles Manigault (son of Louis Manigault, Sr.) noted her identification at the bottom, "My Aunt Emma, 1867. C.M." and Louis Manigault, Sr. wrote on reverse, "Emma Manigault, nat. 1839 - ob. 1886". The photographer's mark on reverse, "263 King St. Charleston S.C. F.A. Nowell."

Gift of Joanna Stewart Jenkins.