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Tintype portrait of Mrs. Annie Cox

ca. 1865

Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

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

Tintype of Mrs. Annie Cox shown in three quarter portrait. Cox is seated and leaning with her arms crossed on the arm of a chair. She is turned slightly to her left and looks off frame. Her curly hair is parted at the center and loosely gathered into a ponytail at the nape of her neck. She wears a dark bodice and a plaid skirt. There is a ring on her right hand ring finger. The tintype is housed in its original "Potters Patent" die-cut paper frame. Information for Hall's Tintype & Ferrotype Gallery is printed on the back of the photograph. The photograph is housed in the album 2017.30. The album page has a triple-lined, gold border framing the print. Handwritten in graphite inside the bottom border of the printed frame of the album page is the text "Mrs. Anna Cox".

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Catalog reference: 2017.30.28

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