Portrait of Mrs. Day, Singh, India
commercial portraiture
Infants
Shields, Lorne
Item is a pink carte de visite with note handwritten in black ink at bottom, "Mrs Day, Singh, India 1443". Photograph shows an Indian woman in sari seated in a wicker chair holding a sleeping baby in ruffled, Western-style dress. On verso, in pencil, "Bible woman/ Balbia(?)." In a different hand, "1.00". and again, different and at bottom of card "1443".
[ca. 1900]
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1 photograph: 10.5 x 6.3
https://archives.library.torontomu.ca/portrait-of-mrs-day-singh-india
2008.001.142
India
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