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Description
Dress worn by sitter is very similar to that worn by Mrs. Mark Hopkins (Mary Sherwood) in item :039. Also compare portrait of Lydia P. Crittenden (nee Sherwood), item :008. Half length portrait of young woman wearing dark dress with wavy line accents and jewelry (gold earrings and a brooch). She is almost certainly a sister of Mary Sherwood Hopkins (Mrs. Mark Hopkins), and is probably Lydia Sherwood Crittenden.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; quarter plate, visible image 8.9 x 6.6 cm.
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