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1. Black and white silk check parasol - Black and white silk check parasol attached to a black wooden handle. Hangle is ornately carved, and contains a black silk ribbon tied at juncture with a long black tassle (that has faded to brown).

   2000.1.35.2

   Record Type: Object

   
2. Dora Elizabeth Fox - Cabinet card of Dora Elizabeth Fox Stevens as a child, the daughter of Dora Huntmacher Fox and Charles Lovelace Fox. Her hair is long, with bangs cut flat across her forehead. She wears a light colored heavy dress, decorated with leaves or some other type of similar decoration along the hem. The waist looks to be gathered and ruffled, or decorated with some sort of flowers. She holds a small parasol in her right proper hand. She stands in between the gate of a painted backdrop of a wooden fence and pastoral landscape. No indication of the photography studio can be found on the front or back of card; however, the gold line around the edge is remaniscent of W. E. Eutsler's cabinet cards.

   2021.25.12

   Record Type: Photo

   
3. Ida F. Plunkett - Cabinet card of Ida F. Plunkett (1872-, neice to Emma Plunkett Hunter Hunt, and daughter to Willias Arthur Plunkett and Harriet Plunkett. Ida stands on a makeshift rock step, with a wooden railing in front. She looks to the right proper at a viewer off-stie. She wears an elongated bodice button up bodice with bishop style sleeves, and long skirt with ruffles at the hem. In her right hand she holds an umbrella or parasol. The background is painted to look like a lake and mountain scene. At the bottom of the card in gold, it reads "Landes 23 E. Main St Staunton VA" The back gives the following printed script and decorative informaton in gold: From the Studio of D. J. Landes Photographer 23 East Main Street Staunton, Virginia. All photographs taken by the new instantaneous process. Invaluable for children. Written along the top are two different inscriptions: Died of fever in Basic City while at summer school there. Kin on Emma Plunkett's side who was married to Nathan Harvey Hunter.

   2021.26.3

   Record Type: Photo