Unidentified Woman

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Description:

Cabinet card portrait of an unidentified woman wearing glasse and a high-necked bodice and floor-length skirt. The photographer has posed her seated on a stone bench in front of a painted backdrop. She is holding a small book in her lap with one hand while the other holds a hat with chiffon-like material decoratively piled on its crown. Photographer's mark at front bottom, "Howie Columbia, S.C." Research is ongoing, please contact the Museum's archives with information of her identity.

Gift of Vernon Jackson Harris, Jr., grandson of Theodosia Elizabeth Cox Gordon Robinson.