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Mrs. Patton's electric car

Description: Two women sit in a very early automobile parked on a dirt road with numerous palm trees in the background. The two women, one of whom is presumably Ruth Wilson Patton, are wearing wide brimmed hats. The woman on the right is wearing a light colored dress with a high collar and long sleeves, and seems to have a light veil attached to her hat. The woman on the left is wearing a darker dress, with a broad white collar.
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Call number: photCL 282 (565)
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Anne Wilson Patton and Ruth Wilson Patton

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Anne Wilson Patton stands with her mother Ruth Wilson Patton in a grassy area with trees in the background. Ruth, on the right, is wearing a black dress with puffed sleeves and a white silk collar, and her hair is swept up into a large black hat. Anne, on the left, is wearing a lighter dress, with gathered waist, sleeves, and shoulders, and a large, soft black hat. Anne is holding a narrow box or album under her right arm, and holding her mother's necklace with her left hand.

photCL 282 (167)

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Ruth Wilson Patton, George Smith Patton, Jr., and Anne Wilson Patton, 1892(?)

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A chest-length studio portrait of Ruth Wilson Patton and her children, Georgie and Annie. Ruth is in the center, with her body turned very slightly to the right, wearing a dark dress with lighter sleeves and a high neck, with her dark, wavy hair parted in the center and pulled back. Georgie, on the left, has his body turned very slightly to the right, is behind his mother, wearing a dark suit with a broad white collar, and has short blond hair. Annie, on the right, is turned slightly to the left, in front of her mother, is wearing a white, lacy dress, and has blond hair that reaches her shoulders, with bangs cut low across her brow.

photCL 282 (342)

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Nita Patton starting school

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Anne Patton stands behind her black bicycle, holding a pair of books. Anne is wearing a dark dress with white buttons and a broad white collar, a circular black hat, dark stockings, and boots. There are stone steps leading up from the dirt road she is standing on, and a dark staircase leading up to the house behind her, on the left.

photCL 282 (64)

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Nita Patton with toy stable

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Anne Patton sits on a grass lawn playing with a wooden stable toy set, with a small doll sitting in the foreground just right of center, and a dark horse next to the play set. Anne, who looks like she is between seven and twelve here, is wearing a dark dress with a wide sailor-style collar and a shallow, wide brimmed straw hat, with her blond hair in two braids the reach just past her shoulders. There is a dog sitting on the grass in the background.

photCL 282 (51)

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)

Susan Glassell Patton, 1890-1906

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A bust-length studio portrait of Susan Glassell Patton, as a young woman, with her body turned slightly to the left. Her hair is pulled up onto her head, with part of a braid visible at the front, and she wears a brooch at the collar of her dress. The dress is medium in color and has ruffles at the shoulders and white trim along the collar.

photCL 284 (174)

Mrs. Patton's electric car

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