Mrs. Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Unknown
1850s
Medium
Salted paper print
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1943
Accession Number
43.64.2
Tags
PortraitsWomen
About the Artist
Unknown
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