Wrapped in Mourning, Albumen Carte de Visite, Circa 1862
"From C. H. Spieler's Photographic Rooms, No. 720 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia."
This woman is wearing a black wrapper, almost certainly associated with mourning. Women wore wrappers in the morning hours before accepting visitors. Wrappers were also commonly worn by pregnant and nursing mothers.
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Wrapped in Mourning, Albumen Carte de Visite, Circa 1862
"From C. H. Spieler's Photographic Rooms, No. 720 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia."
This woman is wearing a black wrapper, almost certainly associated with mourning. Women wore wrappers in the morning hours before accepting visitors. Wrappers were also commonly worn by pregnant and nursing mothers.
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Uploaded on April 22, 2011
Taken on April 21, 2011