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Print of a carte-de-visite of "Mrs. S.A. Douglas"

np, nd (1861?). Paperback. Very Good. Item #21-1366

No photographer listed. 3.5 x 2.5", printed under the image "Mrs. S.A. Douglas." Soiling, spotting, removal marks, written in pencil on reverse "Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas" else good. Adele Cutts was a popular and well educated belle of Washington society with impressive lineage. Her father was a nephew of former First Lady Dolley Madison and her mother a niece of Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow. She met and married Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas in 1856, at the age of twenty. They remained married until he died from a fever in June of 1861. She later remarried.

Price: $15.00