Unidentified white woman in dark dress with lace neck, seated in fringed chair, 1870s?

Containers:
Box 1, Image RL.11785-P-0123
Physical description:
10 1/2 x 6 1/2 cm; albumen; card mount
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Printed on back: Mrs. J. H. Parsons / Photographer, Ypsilanti, Mich.

Biographical / historical:
Photographer Mary Ella Jacobs was born 20 January 1838 in Guilford, Vermont. She was married on 10 October 1855 to John Harrison Parsons (1834-1871). Following the Civil War, the family relocated to Ypsilanti, Michigan, where Parsons opened a photography studio. [Source: Flickriver.com site]Photographer Mary Ella Jacobs was born 20 January 1838 in Guilford, Vermont. She was married on 10 October 1855 to John Harrison Parsons (1834-1871). Following the Civil War, the family relocated to Ypsilanti, Michigan, where Parsons opened a photography studio. [Source: Flickriver.com site] "After John's death in 1871, Mary hired an assistant to do the work in the operating room and did the printing and finishing herself...Mary was employing George Davis as a photographer in 1883...Mary died on May 27, 1918." [Text in quotes from Tinder, David V., "Directory of Early Michigan Photographers. William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, 2013; Online edition updated December 2013]

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