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This photo was one in a box of about 200 given to me by a friend who found them abandoned in a home that was being gutted. It was a phenomenal treasure trove of images that run from the 1860s to the late 1950s. This particular image is on a roughly hand cut piece of photographic paper that seems to have missed being adhered to cardboard somehow. I'm guessing this to be anywhere from around 1885 to 1900. I love her shamrocks.
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