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Page 12 (lower left) unknown; clothing dated by Leslie Bellais at 1875-77 estimated age 25: birth 1850-1852 image badly damaged by foxing (see below) Same as upper right, this page ? |
Page 12 (lower right) Andrew Wright ; clothing dated by Leslie Bellais at 1875-1880 estimated age 30: birth 1845-1850 compare with page 11 upper left, page 6 lower right and page 23 lower left |
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The identification of the upper right photo (above) is based on the assumption that the lower right photo on page 11
shows 3 sisters born between 1842 and 1855. Among close relatives of Catherine (McFarland) Wright, this description fits only the 3 daughters of Catherine's
older sister Jane, who married (a first cousin?) Alexander McFarland in 1846 (Alexander died 1858).
Lower left image was over 75% obscured by foxing mold, except for face and hands. An attempt was made to reconstruct
the original image, but though the result is more pleasing to the eye, the reconstruction required potentionally inaccurate
guessing of what the original image contained, and really amounted to digitally drawing clothes, hair, and drapes. A medalion is
in the reconstruction, but it is not clear that the woman was wearing one. The couch on which the woman rests was left in its
original condition (with foxing), but at the time this photo was taken, this couch was probably colored as the chair in
the upper left image. The original unaltered image was saved, for comparison.
