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[Young woman modeling: head and shoulders, facing left, vines on head, and meshed fabric draped from head over body] – Antique Print

[Young woman modeling: head and shoulders, facing left, vines on head, and meshed fabric draped from head over body], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
[Young woman modeling: head and shoulders, facing left, vines on head, and meshed fabric draped from head over body], [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Family Life collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A young woman turns her head to the left, with vines wound through her hair and a fine mesh fabric falling from her head across her shoulders and body. The caption card lists the photographer as Fritz W. Guerin and tags the picture under glamour and hats, though it carries no date. Studio portraits like this one, which pair costume accessories with posed glamour, were common in commercial photography, and the sitter's headdress and draped veil show how fashion and decorative styling were used to shape a portrait's mood. The undated record leaves the exact setting and year open, so the image is best read as an example of that broader studio tradition.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto by Fritz W. Guerin. #51. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Glamour; Hats.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,229 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147488

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