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Black and white full-length studio portrait of Betsey Stetson. Subject is a young Caucasian female standing to the left of an ornately carved chair with padded back and seat. Subject has dark hair parted in the middle, and gathered in a snood in the back. Subject wears a dark-colored skirt and jacket with darker flecks overall, a white bodice and cuffs and collar with dark ribbon running through it and tied in a bow at throat. Jacket has dropped shoulders with sleeves that grow fuller at the wrists and pleated trim at cuffs and along the front open edge of jacket. There is a belt with buckle between the dark skirt and white bodice.

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mk61ss79f
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Betsey Stetson
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photograph
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Source metadata
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mk61ss79f
contentType
photograph
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normalized
title
Betsey Stetson
description
Black and white full-length studio portrait of Betsey Stetson. Subject is a young Caucasian female standing to the left of an ornately carved chair with padded back and seat. Subject has dark hair parted in the middle, and gathered in a snood in the back. Subject wears a dark-colored skirt and jacket with darker flecks overall, a white bodice and cuffs and collar with dark ribbon running through it and tied in a bow at throat. Jacket has dropped shoulders with sleeves that grow fuller at the wrists and pleated trim at cuffs and along the front open edge of jacket. There is a belt with buckle between the dark skirt and white bodice.
date
["November 26, 1863"]
year
1863
rights
Rights status not evaluated.
rightsUri
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND).
reuseAllowed
creative commons
identifierLocal
2004.004.0011
creators
Parlow, George F.
institution
New Bedford Free Public Library
collections
Earle D. Wilson Collection
subjectsGeographic
Bristol (county)
Massachusetts
New Bedford
North and Central America
United States
genreBasic
Photographs
genreSpecific
Cartes de visite
Portrait photographs
typeOfResource
Still image
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Bristol
city
New Bedford
pageCount
1
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import
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8s45qj93w
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mk61ss58p
schema:latitude
41.6333
schema:longitude
-70.9333
extent
1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 11 x 7 cm (cartes de visite format)
notes
Title from item.
Additional information from accompanying material: Left edge of image is unevenly cut/cropped. Image is mounted to cardboard mount with two gold lines around the edges. Image is mounted closer to top of mount. Name and location of photographer printed in black on the back. Handwritten on back: "Betsey Stetson/New Bedford./Nov. 26. 1863. Mass."
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