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DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Gem tintype portrait album

ca. 1870
95 gem tintypes
9.3 x 8.3 cm.
Gift of Howard Merritt
77:0853:0000

NOTES: Album contains 95 gem tintype portraits, 4 images per page, most of these are identified with pencil inscriptions under each tintype. Note enclosed in album identifies the owner as Florence McGregor Hanscom (1855-1907) of East Machias, Maine. Included are two spirit images (female spirit behind chair, # 57 and 58). One item is missing from slot, binding is broken, ca. 1870.

SUBJECT: portrait

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