Consider the Lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not

Consider the Lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not

Photograph

B.W. Kilburn

Maker
American, 1827–1909

Consider the Lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not

ca. 1870
Albumen silver print with applied color
Image (each): 3 1/16 × 3 1/16 in. (7.7 × 7.7 cm)
Mount: 3 5/16 × 6 7/8 in. (8.4 × 17.4 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1981.9406.0001
Inscriptions Printed on recto, BR: 1815. "Consider the Lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; \ and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these."
Printed on verso, C: Photographed and Published by \ Kilburn Brothers, ----- Littleton, N. H.
Inscribed in pencil on verso, RC: J C Smith

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