Quaker woman with folded arms - Public domain portrait print
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Black and white daguerreotype portrait of a woman. Subject is a Caucasian female with body and head facing full front. Subject has dark-colored hair parted in the middle and covered by a white bonnet with full sides and tied under her chin with a white ribbon/bow. Subject wears a dark-colored dress with a wider, white, sheer collar with a few rows/bands of simple decorative stitching at collar's edge. Light-colored neckwear/scarf with short, dark fringe hangs slightly down the front of the dress. Similar dark fringe is at the midpoint of the upper arm of the long sleeves. Long sleeves end in tightly-fitted cuffs. Dress fabric is shiny. Subject has her left arm folded over her right.
Courtesy of New Bedford Free Public Library
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