Historical Portrait

People: Mary Elizabeth Hopkins Porcella wedding portrait, 1895

1895·Source: internet_archive·View original ↗·Public Domain

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Archive record

Public-domain historical photograph of Mary Elizabeth Hopkins Porcella in wedding attire, 1895. Features Victorian-era black dress and white hat with brooch.

About this photograph

This wedding portrait shows Mary Elizabeth Hopkins Porcella wearing Victorian-era bridal attire in 1895. The record notes her black dress and white hat adorned with a brooch, though the photographer remains unidentified.

The photograph forms part of materials digitised through California Revealed, a statewide programme that makes holdings from California libraries, archives, museums and historical societies publicly available online. The subject terms indicate this item came through the Novato History Museum.

Beyond what appears in the archive record itself, no additional biographical information about Mary Elizabeth Hopkins Porcella has been supplied. The image stands as one of countless family portraits from the late nineteenth century now preserved in digital collections, offering a glimpse of wedding customs and formal dress from that era.

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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Credit: Internet Archive

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