Photograph of a woman in a lace cap, dark dress, and white shawl. Sitter is seated in a Victorian chair with carved back at a writing desk in the Dining Room at Quincy House.
portraits
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paper (fiber product)
Photograph
Photograph
"Property of A.B. Gould. Photograph of Abby Phillips Quincy. Enlarged by Moses(?) Partridge from a -- negative taken by an amateur (a druggist named Hadcock) in Roxbury which negative now belongs to A.B. Gould" (handwritten)
Quincy, Abigail Phillips, 1803-1893
Original to Josiah Quincy House (Quincy, Mass.),
Hadcock, Henry L., 1855-1931 (Photographer)
Foster Brothers (Framer)
Roxbury, MA, USA; Boston, MA, USA
21 3/4 x 24 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Edmund Quincy
1988.81
Massachusetts (United States)
Roxbury (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
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