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Skeleton Leaves: Parepa Rosa.
1874
John P. Soule
USA
Photograph on paper mounted on board
overall: 3-1/2"h x 7"w x 1/4"d
Fredric Woodbridge Wilson Collection, Gift of Thomas Garrett
2010.055.288

Sepia-tone sterecard photograph of leaves arranged in a wreath with a portrait of a woman, British operatic soprano Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa, inside. Title is stamped in black on the left end of the card and reads "Skeleton Leaves." Mounted on yellow card. Double image of leaves arranged as a large wreath. A small portrait of a woman in a gown is at the center. Superimposed in white at the bottom of the images "Parepa Rosa." Stamped in black on the end of the card "John P. Soule, 199 Washington St., Boston. / Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by I. L. ROGERS, in the / Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C." Handwritten in pencil on the back of the card "Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa".



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