Carte de visite portrait of a woman standing next to a chair. She is wearing a very plain dark dress with no adornments but a simple white collar. The hoop skirt has more fullness in the back so it's probably in the latter 1860s. Could this be a mourning dress?
Photographer "M. H. Eberhart, Mount Vernon, Iowa" tax stamp on back
inscribed" Laura Sphere, Sarah Leigh Ballard, school teacher"
part of a group of 6 CDVs of same family group family group of 6 CDVs F10015771 - 10015776
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Carte de visite portrait of a woman standing next to a chair. She is wearing a very plain dark dress with no adornments but a simple white collar. The hoop skirt has more fullness in the back so it's probably in the latter 1860s. Could this be a mourning dress?
Photographer "M. H. Eberhart, Mount Vernon, Iowa" tax stamp on back
inscribed" Laura Sphere, Sarah Leigh Ballard, school teacher"
part of a group of 6 CDVs of same family group family group of 6 CDVs F10015771 - 10015776