[Hallie Quinn Brown, educator and activist, cape draped on shoulder and wearing gloves]

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1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; sheet 14.4 x 10 cm, mount 16.4 x 10.8 cm (cabinet card format)

About this photograph

This cabinet card portrait, made by photographer F. S. Biddle in 1875, shows Hallie Quinn Brown wearing a cape draped over one shoulder and gloves. The albumen print is mounted on card in the standard cabinet card format of the period.

Brown was an educator and activist, though the specifics of her career and accomplishments are not detailed in the archive record. The circumstances of this sitting and Brown's relationship to the photographer remain unknown. The portrait dates from relatively early in cabinet card photography's widespread use in the United States.

Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.

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