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An unknown female Westbrook Seminary student looks directly into the camera in this 1870s carte de visite by J. H. Lamson, Photographer, Middle Street, Portland, Maine. She wears a dark lace shawl around her shoulders and a white lace ruffle and jabot at her neck. Her hair is tightly curled in the front over her forehead and she wears a coiled hairpiece on the top of her head.

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Carte de visite photograph

Creator

J H. Lamson

Date

1870s

Size of Original

2 1/2 inches x 4 inches

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