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Roxanna Dean Burt
1860-1892
Woodward & Stiff
USA: Massachusetts, Taunton
Photograph on paper mounted on board
frame: 4-1/2"h x 3-3/8"w x 1/2"d; sheet: 4-1/4"h x 2-1/2"w
Gift of Brita Flemming
2011.039.17

Sepia-tone carte-de-visite bust photograph of woman identified as Roxanna Dean Burt (Mrs. Walter Sprague). Image shows a portrait of an older woman with white hair wearing a high-collared dark dress. The woman wears earrings and a dark hair comb. On the reverse side of the photograph in pen and pencil it reads "G.W.S / Roxanna Dean Burt / b. 8/18/1810 / d. 1/19/1892 / mother of Harriet A. Burt / who m. Walter S. Sprague / HWS's gr. gt. mother."