Call NumberZ-8254CreatorStorm, Francis D.Date1888SummaryStudio bust portrait of Mabel Padelford, a senior at Denver High School in Denver, Colorado. Padelford's bangs are layered and curled and her hair is pulled back and affixed with a comb. Her fitted dress bodice has a front enclosure, a band collar lined with a row of beads, and two bar pins fastened at the throat.Physical Description1 photographic print on cabinet card : black and white, albumen ; visible image 14 x 10 cm (5 1/2 x 4 in.) mounted in album page 26 x 31 cm (10 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.)Born-Digital or AnalogAnalogSubjectStudents--Colorado--Denver--19th centuryPadelford, MabelDenver High School (Denver, Colo.)--StudentsDenver Public Schools--StudentsGeographic AreaDenver (Colo.)CollectionPhotographs - Western HistoryRelated MaterialImage File: ZZR711008254Type of MaterialAlbumen printsBlack & white photographsCabinet photographsPhotographic printsPortrait photographsOriginal Material Found in CollectionC Photo Album 390. Denver High School, District Number One, Denver, Colorado. Album, class of 1887-1888Denver High School albumsNotesD.H.S. inked on verso. Probably her name was inked on verso and masked. Cabinet card found on page 45 in C Photo Album 390. Cabinet cards are mounted in album page and identification is penciled on the album page beneath cabinet cards. Photographer's stamp printed on cabinet card, emulsion cracked and partly obscured. Title penciled beneath cabinet card: "Mabel P. Delford" [sic]. Title from names indexed in: "Denver High School photo albums, 1887-1897," by Sharon K. Boatwright, M.A. in "Colorado Genealogist", vol. 60, no.4. R7110082542
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