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Maria de Jesus Shorb

Description: A three-quarters length studio portrait of Maria de Jesus Shorb, seated in a wooden chair turned partially to the left. She is wearing a floor-length black coat with embroidery on the shoulders, collar, and cuffs, and a fluffy, black hat on her gray hair with long ribbons trailing in the back. She has a long black bow at her throat, a simple ring on each of her ring fingers, is wearing small frame-less glasses, and is holding her black purse in her lap.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1910-1917
Call number: photCL 283 (27)
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Maria de Jesus Wilson

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A full-length studio portrait of Maria de Jesus ("Sue") Wilson (later Shorb), with her body turned to the left and her head turned partially to the left. She is wearing a dark dress with a bustle, small train, bows up the side of the skirt, a large bow at the throat, and long sleeves with white lace sticking out at the cuffs. Her hair is parted in the center and pulled up into a dark hat, and she holds a dark umbrella in her gloved right hand. The background behind her is an illustrated scene with a railing leading downward, the sea in the distance, and the sun or moon in the upper left.

photCL 283 (19)

Dora Hereford and Maria de Jesus Wilson

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A three-quarters length studio portrait of Medora ("Dora") Hereford and Maria de Jesus ("Sue") Wilson (later Shorb). Dora, on the left, is wearing a black top with exposed shoulders, a light colored skirt with black trim, a sheer, gauzy shawl with black trim, a large crucifix necklace, and several rings. Her hair is pulled up on either side of her head, with tight curls hanging down. Sue, on the right, is wearing a dress with vertical stripes and exposed shoulders. Her hair is pulled back, and decorated with wide ribbons. They are holding each other's right hands, with Dora resting her left hand on Sue's shoulder, and Sue holding a small book(?) in her lap with her left hand.

photCL 283 (16)

Ynez Maria Shorb

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A circular bust-length studio portrait of Ynez Maria Shorb as a young woman, turned slightly to the left and looking upward. Her hair is piled on top of her head in curls, and she is wearing a light-colored scoop neck dress with a floral pattern on the front and fringe below the collar.

photCL 284 (109 b)

Woman with long hair

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A three-quarters length studio portrait of a woman, probably middle aged, turned partially to the left. She is wearing a dark, possibly black dress with buttons down the front and at the cuffs, and has long, slightly wavy hair that reaches almost to her knees. She is resting her hands on a low pillar-like structure decorated with a vine.

photCL 283 (20)

Mrs. Benjamin Davis Wilson

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A three-quarters length studio portrait of Margaret S. Hereford Wilson seated and turned slightly to the left. She is wearing a black dress with a long line of black buttons down the front and a black lace bow at her throat. Her hair is pulled back and mostly covered by white fabric. She is seated on a wooden chair with beige padding on the seat, back, and arms. The photograph is been hand-tinted so that her skin is beige, her lips red, and her cheeks pink, and the chair as been tinted brown and beige.

photCL 283 (12)

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Annie Wilson

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A full-length photographic studio portrait of Annie Wilson, seated on a "stone" bench, with her cheek resting against her right hand, and her right elbow on the arm of the bench. She is wearing a long, light colored (silk?) dress, with lace at the neck and sleeves and floral accents on the bodice and the lower half of the skirt. She is looking down at an open book held in her left hand.

photCL 283 (50)

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