[Gem tintype portrait of young girl 1]

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Gem tintype photograph of a young girl from the chest up. She wears a striped jacket buttoned to the collar, and a black hat that covers only the very top of her head. She has shoulder-length light colored hair with straight bangs. She looks directly at the camera and does not smile. Her eyes and mouth are slightly blurred. The photograph has cracks in the emulsion layer in the upper right corner, and at the very corner a section has flaked off.

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1 photograph : tintype, b&w ; h x w cm.

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This photograph is part of the collection entitled: Frances Marion Allen Collection and was provided by the Tarrant County Archives to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. More information about this photograph can be viewed below.

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Gem tintype photograph of a young girl from the chest up. She wears a striped jacket buttoned to the collar, and a black hat that covers only the very top of her head. She has shoulder-length light colored hair with straight bangs. She looks directly at the camera and does not smile. Her eyes and mouth are slightly blurred. The photograph has cracks in the emulsion layer in the upper right corner, and at the very corner a section has flaked off.

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1 photograph : tintype, b&w ; h x w cm.

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Frances Marion Allen Collection

The collection of Frances Marion Allen, a longtime resident of Fort Worth who died in 1997, contains material collected by herself, her parents, James Walter Allen, M.D. and Daisy Emery Allen, M.D., and her sister, Sheila Emery Allen. The collection contains numerous photographs and correspondence dating from the mid-19th century to the late-20th century.

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  • Sept. 16, 2023, 9:42 p.m.

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  • Dec. 5, 2023, 4:04 p.m.

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[Gem tintype portrait of young girl 1], photograph, Date Unknown; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1595114/: accessed June 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarrant County Archives.

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