Dinsmore Sisters

Photographer

Creation Date

1889

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Description

Chocolate or brown cabinet card portrait of sisters (left to right) Eda Lue Dinsmore, age 10, (1879-1971), Elise Mabel Dinsmore (1888-1980), and Winnifred Maud Dinsmore, age 7, (1882-1899). The girls were daughters of Representative Samuel O. Dinsmore of Medford Center, Maine. All three girls wear "boy-length" haircuts indicating potential illness or infestation. The two older girls wear matching dark-colored skirts and jackets with light-colored piping. Each girl has a high, lace collar worn beneath a blousy dark top. Eda Lue has large dark eyes. Winnifred has large, light-colored eyes. Baby Elise, born in December 1888, is approximately six months old, seated on a tall stool draped in a rug. She wears a light-colored dress trimmed in lace. She has dark eyes and light hair with a middle part. 1889. See NAFOH 2462.

Topic

Race and Gender, Social Life and Customs

Collection

MF072

Series Number

NA2462

Identifier

p07935

Recommended Citation

"Dinsmore Sisters" (2024). Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Image Gallery. 541.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/nafoh_gallery/541

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Existence and Location of Originals

Medford Center, Maine