Photographic postcard portrait of a woman standing with a chair

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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 photographic postcard of a standing woman posing with a chair. The photograph is in portrait orientation. The woman is shown from the knees up, with her body turned towards the left edge of the image in three-quarters pose, and her face turned towards the viewer. Her head is slightly tilted towards her proper left shoulder and she has a small smile on her face. The woman is wearing a light tone, Edwardian style day dress with a wide lace collar with scalloped edges and a lace jabot. The dress features two, long, vertical rows of large, decorative, dark buttons running down from the shoulders and over the front of the skirt. The buttons are spaced out along two vertical lines of dark piping that runs the length of the dress. The sleeves of the dress end at the elbows and her hands and forearms are encased in white, elbow length dress gloves.

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