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Stylish, Young Woman, New Hampshire or Maine, 1860s?

This tintype is from Hester Ann Ellingwood Fifield (1820-1895)'s Photo Album.

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The back of the tintype is blank. There is no Civil War tax stamp, as would have been required from 1864 to 1866, .

 

Gram Fifield, and her husband, Edward, were foster parents for my Great-grandmother Rose Ella Andrews after her father died in the Civil War and her mother died soon after. My maternal grandparents saw I was interested in old photos and gave me Gram Fifield's album in the 1960s,

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Uploaded on December 14, 2011
Taken circa 1867