[Portrait of Susie Bruce]

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1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 10 x 6 cm (carte de visite format) | Photograph shows a full-length portrait of Susan Bruce (1850-1866), a student and protegé of Emily Howland, likely taken during one of Bruce's visits to Howland's home in Sherwood, New York.

About this photograph

This full-length portrait shows Susan Bruce (1850-1866), photographed in carte de visite format. The record indicates Bruce was a student and protegé of Emily Howland, and the photograph was likely taken during one of Bruce's visits to Howland's home in Sherwood, New York, in 1861.

The photographer is identified as S. J. Fowler, though the cataloguing shows some uncertainty about details of the attribution. Bruce died in 1866 at age sixteen.

No further information about Bruce, Howland, or the circumstances of this portrait is available in the archive record.

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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