Cabinet card of two unidentified children in communion dress by J. P. Ball & Son

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A black-and-white photograph of an unidentified girl and an unidentified boy photographed at the J. P. Ball & Son studio in Helena, Montana. The photograph is mounted on light-colored pasteboard with the name and location of the photo studio printed on the front along the bottom. The children pose on either side of a circular pedestal, the girl to the proper right and the boy on the proper left. The girl wears a white dress and veil and holds a small book in her left hand which rests on the pedestal. She has a ribbon badge pinned to the proper right front side of her bodice. The boy is dressed in a dark suit and rests his right hand on the pedestal with the same small book held out in his left hand. He has a ribbon badge pinned to his left lapel. The reverse is blank.

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