Lot of 3, including: CDV of a young girl, hand colored and inked youth on the print and on verso Coloured for the Memorial Assct of Lexington by Mary Custis Lee / for my young friend Hennie. The Ladies' Memorial Association was an organization of Southern women with chapters in dozens of cities, with the purpose of arranging proper burials for Confederate soldiers killed in the war. It seems that the Lexington, VA, chapter took advantage of its famous resident family, the Lees, who moved there after the war so that former Gen. Robert E. Lee could serve as president of Washington College (Washington & Lee), in order to help raise money through the sale of photographs. The Mary Custis Lee who colored this carte is probably Robert E. Lee's oldest daughter (1835-1918) rather than his wife Mary Anna Custis Lee (1808-1873). PLUS two lightly-tinted CDVs of Richmond, VA, women, identified on the prints as Miss Jennie Jones and Miss. Cornelia Vannerson. The former bears the verso imprint of photographers Vannerson & Jones of Richmond, and the latter lacks an imprint, but is probably the wife or a relative of the photographer.
Lot of 3, including: CDV of a young girl, hand colored and inked youth on the print and on verso Coloured for the Memorial Assct of Lexington by Mary Custis Lee / for my young friend Hennie. The Ladies' Memorial Association was an organization of Southern women with chapters in dozens of cities, with the purpose of arranging proper burials for Confederate soldiers killed in the war. It seems that the Lexington, VA, chapter took advantage of its famous resident family, the Lees, who moved there after the war so that former Gen. Robert E. Lee could serve as president of Washington College (Washington & Lee), in order to help raise money through the sale of photographs. The Mary Custis Lee who colored this carte is probably Robert E. Lee's oldest daughter (1835-1918) rather than his wife Mary Anna Custis Lee (1808-1873). PLUS two lightly-tinted CDVs of Richmond, VA, women, identified on the prints as Miss Jennie Jones and Miss. Cornelia Vannerson. The former bears the verso imprint of photographers Vannerson & Jones of Richmond, and the latter lacks an imprint, but is probably the wife or a relative of the photographer.
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