Artifact of the Week — April 7, 2022

Posted by on April 29, 2022
Copy of photgraphic bust portrait of two women in profile
Copy of photgraphic bust portrait of two women in profile

Copy of photgraphic bust portrait of two women in profile.  On right:  Adele, Crouch (Mrs. John Quincy Wolf, Sr.)  On left:  her sister, Maude (?).  Time 1890’s.  (See also P2000.162.008–same two women in same attire and setting.)  Two women dress in fashionable day wear.  Adele wears a straw hat set forward, decorated with folded fabric and lace (?) if several shades.  Dress tailored with braiding, knotwork, and tassling.  Her sister (?) also wears a straw hat worn forward, decorated with folded fabric and flowers (?).  Her dark jacket has contrasting sleeve caps and lapel-collar.  A scarf is tied at the neck of her blouse.  A rattan chair-back shows in the background.  Fashion–ladies, European American, Family History, Hair, Hats, 1890’s Furniture.

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