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Cabinet card of Mary Jane Hale Welles in a funeral dress by Elizabeth Keckly
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Cabinet card of Mary Jane Hale Welles in a funeral dress by Elizabeth Keckly

Henry Ulke, German American, 1821 - 1910 · 1866

albumen and silver on photographic paper on cardboard
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CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of African American History and Culture

This portrait depicts Mary Jane Hale Welles, wife of Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, in a funeral dress. The dress is said to have been sewn and designed by Elizabeth Keckley for the funeral of her son Hubert Gideon Welles in 1862, and again worn by Welles at the funeral of President Lincoln in 1865.

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