Mrs. Young, Photographer, 1880s
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- Box 3, Image RL.11785-P-0496
- Physical description:
- 16 1/2 x 10 3/4 cm; albumen; card mount
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Printed on front: Mrs. Young, Fayetteville, Ark. This studio portrait features a camera with a promotional banner for Mrs. Young, Photographer, and a woman who may or may not be Mrs. Young, whose dress, accessories, and hair are festooned with sample photographic portraits. Card mount is pink with gilt scalloped edges.
- Biographical / historical:
- Sarah Jessie Young was a photographer, and her husband was a travelling dental surgeon. After receiving a divorce in 1883, Mrs. Young built a two-story Italianate-style building on the Fayetteville, Arkansas, town square in 1887, where she established her studio.
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