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unknown woman
This seems to be an earlier photo of the woman in photo 25
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John Chancellor was working a photographer in the family watch- and clock-making business at 55 Sackville Street Lower from at least 1862.
From 1867 onwards he was listed as a photographer in the commercial section of Thom's Directory.
In 1898 the listing was changed to 'Chancellor & Son'. The studio continued until 1923.
Clothing specialist Leslie Belais at the Wisconsin Historical Society states: clothing dates from "c. 1885 (She seems to be wearing a mourning dress.)"
Age about 40, hence born about 1845
Leslie Belais also notes the similarity between the cap worn above and the cap worn by Queen Victoria in the 1880s (below)
