[Young woman modeling: Full lgth., standing at well, with little girl]

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A full-length study of a young woman posed beside a well, with a little girl at her side, the scene is set outdoors in a rural-looking setting that suggests a pastoral or domestic ideal rather than a documented event. The photograph was made around 1903 by Fritz W. Guerin, a photographer whose studio work of the period often staged figures in costume against simple props. Picture-making of this kind frequently served to display fashionable dress, and the pairing of a grown woman with a child invites attention to how clothing marked age, class and everyday respectability in the early twentieth century. The record is unverified, so the exact location and the identity of the sitters remain unknown.

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