Lot 145

CDV Women Twins Portrait Purviance Pittsburgh

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Carte de visite studio portrait depicting twins posed together in formal mid-nineteenth century dress. One woman is seated while the other stands beside an ornate studio chair within a curtained interior with patterned floor.

The mount reads “Photographed by Purviance, cor. Fifth and Wood Sts., Pittsburgh, and cor. Fifth and Market Sts.” Purviance operated one of the principal photographic studios in Pittsburgh during the Civil War period.

CDV photograph with printed studio credit along the lower mount.

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