[Nurse Mary Jane Safford, the "Cairo Angel"]

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1 photograph : print ; sheet 150 x 102 mm, mount 165 x 108 mm (cabinet card format)

About this photograph

This cabinet card portrait, created by S.M. Fassett (Samuel Montague) in 1874, shows Nurse Mary Jane Safford, identified in the title as the "Cairo Angel."

The archive record provides no further details about Safford's nursing work, her connection to Cairo, or why she received this designation. Without additional documentation, the circumstances of her career, the location or period of her service, and the reasons for this particular epithet remain unspecified.

The photograph follows the cabinet card format standard for the period, with the print mounted on card stock measuring 165 x 108 mm.

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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