Unidentified Woman

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Description:

Portrait photograph of an unidentified woman wearing a bodice with slightly puffed sleeves and lace trim covering the front breast panels. The collar is high with a lace trim. Her hair is pulled back under a velvet trimmed hat topped with ribbons. The image is mounted to a decorative matte board. Photographer's mark stamped on reverse, "Gem, or Stamp Photos, - $2.00 - Two Dollars, per 100 a the New York Gem Gallery, 265 King Street Charleston, 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.