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Photograph of two girls looking through a photo album in 1879

Citation

“Photograph of two girls looking through a photo album in 1879,” Madison Historical, accessed December 3, 2024, https://madison-historical.siue.edu/archive/items/show/1759.

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Description

This is a photograph of two girls looking through a photo album in the summer of 1879. The reverse side of the photo lists them as Aunt Bet and Aunt Annie. It appears to list their ages as 10 and 8 respectively.

In Collection

Subjects

  • family
  • farm

Contributor

  • Mudge, Stephen

Date

1879

Type

  • Photograph

Format

  • jpg

Coverage

  • Alton, Illinois
  • 1870s

Identifier

  • Mudge-Steve-P-0004
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