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Unknown [Carte de visite of Ella Taylor Waring]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01896.192 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: no date Pagination: 1 albumen : tinted ; 10.7 x 6.3 cm. Order a Copy

Ella Taylor Waring, vignette portrait, hand coloured and outlined in ink. Albumen print (Pollock). Inscribed: "Mrs. Ella Taylor Waring Mrs. Thos. W. Waring]

Waring, Ella Taylor, fl. 1861-1877
Waring, Thomas W., fl. 1861-1877

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