Photograph of William Naylor Buckner Jr. and Mary Elizabeth Cooke Buckner

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A sepia-toned wedding photograph of William Naylor Buckner Jr. and Mary Elizabeth Cooke Buckner. Both are shown from the waist up with their torsos turned in three-quarters pose towards the left edge of the photograph and their faces turned towards the viewer. Mary Buckner, left, is shown leaning her proper left shoulder against her husband’s chest. Buckner is wearing his Army uniform while Cooke Buckner is wearing a white, ruffled, gunnysack style dress, and a white sun hat with a wide vine and tendril embroidered brim. Both have slight smiles on their faces and are looking into the distance towards the right edge of the photograph. The image is browned at the bottom. The photograph is partially adhered to a large fragment of a gray-brown paper backing. The backing has a faux leather finish but is otherwise plain.

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