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Description:
Blackwell Family Photos. Including four ambrotypes or tintypes in cases (one depicting a woman, the other three men); nine black-and-white photos of family groups and houses, three with identifications on versos, viz., "Home of Mr. & Mrs. Henry Lawrence, picture made by Mertice Thrasher Sept. 13th 1905," "John & George Blackwell" (two small boys playing on the beach),and "Family group 65 Burnet Street [East Orange, New Jersey] Xmas 1902, at the back: tom, Doctor Huntington, Father, Nettie, second row: George, Emma, Anna, Frances, Ethel Jones, May with little Helen, Albert, in front: Agnes Clifford," Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell appears in at least two of the family groupings; [and] two negatives of the photos.
Provenance: By descent through the Blackwell family.
Estimate $250-350
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Keywords
Henry Lawrence, Elizabeth Blackwell, Anna, Albert, Helen, Emma, John & George Blackwell, Ethel Jones, Agnes Clifford, Frances, NettieJohn Dorfman
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