Cabinet card studio portrait of a young woman standing with a pedestal table

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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 sepia tone cabinet card of a young woman posing with a pedestal table. The photograph is in portrait orientation. The unidentified woman is depicted from the knees up. She is facing the viewer and wearing a serious expression on her face. Her proper right elbow is propped on a metal pedestal table next to her and her fingers are intertwined at her waist. Clasped between her two hands is a white handkerchief. She is wearing a plain, light toned dress with a fitted bodice and a full skirts with large pleats at the front. The bodice has large plaid lapels at the front. Below the lapels are two rows of two, large, plaid fabric covered, decorative buttons. Between the two rows of decorative buttons is a row of four, small plain buttons down the center of the bodice. In between the lapels of the dress bodice is a matching, ruched, plaid panel.

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