Unknown [Portrait of an unidentified eleven member family]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0223 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1860 Pagination: 1 salt print ; 18.2 x 17.1 cm. Order a Copy
A print of a photograph showing family members in their yard with the corner of a brick building to the left side of the photograph. The image shows two small boys one small girl, one teenage girl, one teen age boy, two middle aged men, one middle aged woman, an elderly man and an elderly woman. All the woman are wearing dark dresses. All the men are in civilian clothes. Good image of period clothing. Several of the subjects are smiling.
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