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The image shows an elderly woman standing slightly leaning against a stack of logs. She is facing forward with her body and her right hand resting on the logs. Her left hand holds what seems to be a closed umbrella or parasol. She has distinctive facial features, including high cheekbones and a kind expression, dark skin, and a defined jawline. She wears a dark shawl, a long sleeve dress, a light-colored apron tied around her waist, a dark bonnet covering most of her hair, small earrings in each ear. In the background, there is a wooden structure resembling a shed, a board pathway cutting…
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"Posing for Her First Picture"

Keystone View Company (American, 1892 - 1963)

c. 1890

Medium
stereoscopic collodion print
Classification
Photograph
Dimensions
image (each): 7.6 × 7.6 cm (3 × 3 in.) ; sheet: 7.6 × 15.4 cm (3 × 6 1/16 in.) ; mount: 8.9 × 17.8 cm (3 1/2 × 7 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CPH
Credit line
Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection, Purchased with support from the Ford Foundation
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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