Lydia Mary Olive (Mareof von Finkelstein) Mountford, 1855-1917 – Historic Print
![Lydia Mary Olive (Mareof von Finkelstein) Mountford, 1855-1917, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e8/e8246cc13c38-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Lydia Mary Olive (Mareof von Finkelstein) Mountford, 1855-1917. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Lydia Mary Olive (Mareof von Finkelstein) Mountford, 1855-1917
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The caption card gives the sitter as Lydia Mary Olive Mountford, 1855 to 1917, with a second surname, von Finkelstein, recorded as an alternate form. The print comes from a studio identified only as Johnson of Salt Lake, so it likely dates from the decades when Salt Lake City was an active center of commercial portrait photography in the Utah Territory. Studios of that era produced inexpensive card portraits that families exchanged and kept in albums. The subject tags on the card, which include "women" and "shepherds," read as cataloguing terms rather than descriptions, and with no date recorded, the exact sitting remains uncertain.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by Johnson, Salt Lake. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; BI; Women; Shepherds; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 957 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155694 |
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