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Photograph was edited for publication purposes. Photograph article dated October 24, 1963 partially reads, "One of the world's most famous characters in oil, Sir Thomas Lawrence's 'Pinkie' which hangs in the Huntington Library, has stepped out of her frame in the form of a pink alabaster carving made by a North Hollywood woman. Mrs. Jack (Esther) Cluett and her husband, members of the San Fernando Valley Gem and Mineral Society, found the stone on a field trip into the Sierra Madre range north of Ojai and the decision was made to carve 'Pinkie.'"
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