$20.00 CAD
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Nice posed photo of young African-American girl, in white dress and socks, with a ribbon in her hair.
Embossed into card ‘Forney’s Studio Abilene Kans.’
Photo mounted on cardboard card with decorative border.
Small bit of LR corner missing, chip UR corner.
Photo: 4” x 2”
Card: 7 ¾” x 3 ¾”
(Red text is an electronic watermark that is not physically part of the photo for sale)
...In the 1895 Kansas State Census living in Abilene, Dickinson County, Kansas, Samuel Forney is listed as a 41-year-old photographer…The 1915 Kansas State Census shows the family had moved to Fredonia, Kansas in the neighboring county of Wilson...
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