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Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.
Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
still image
Portrait photographs 1890-1900. gmgpc
Silver printing-out paper prints 1890-1900. gmgpc
1897.
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Photograph shows head-and-shoulders portrait of an African American woman.
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"Frances and Mary Allen lived most of their lives in Deerfield, Mass. at their family farm. Their hearing deteriorated between 1883 and 1891. Chronic ear infections are the suspected cause. As a result of their being Deaf...Their brother introduced them to photography, which was just beginning to move into the artistic field." (source: https://deaf-art.org/profiles/allen-sisters/)
Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection.
Frances Benjamin Johnston;
Published in: Ambassadors of progress / edited by Bronwyn A.E. Griffith ... France : Musée d'Art Américain Giverny ... 2001, p. 140.
African Americans--Women--1890-1900.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3f06125
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