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Isle of Lesbos : Vintage Images : Photos : Devoted Pairs : Portrait

Portrait of Two Young Women

Late 1890s

My vote is that these are sisters. What do you think? It's a carte-de-vista, professionally taken by Smith & Warren photographers in Putnam, Connecticut. Very typical for portraits of its time. Check out those corsets--ouch!