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[Portrait of the photographer's mother reading]
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[Portrait of the photographer's mother reading]
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Photograph
George Watson Hewitt
Maker
American, 1841–1917
[Portrait of the photographer's mother reading]
ca. 1895
Platinum print
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1978.0256.0001
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