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Three pictures of a young Emma Abbott arranged as if on an album page. The first picture from 1873 is a portrait showing her head and shoulders. Her face is turned to her right. She looks downward; her lips are closed. She holds her right hand to her right cheek. Her hair is pulled off her face and fastened at the back of her head in a knot, and from there, it falls onto her shoulders. She is wearing a dress with a pleated bodice and soft, full shoulders. The picture in the middle, taken in 1874, shows Emma dressed for her role in Donizetti’s The Daughter of the Regiment. It is a three-quarter picture of her. She wears a kilt and Scottish hat with tassel that hangs from the top of the hat to her right. She carries a drum strapped across her chest. The drum sits at her left hip. She holds a drumstick in each hand, raised as if she is playing. Her jacket is a dark velvet, and it covers a white blouse with wide cuffs. She wears a full, plaid skirt. The third photo, from 1875, is a head portrait of Emma. It is similar to the one from 1873. Her hair is pulled back away from her face; her dress is dark and plain with a white, ruffled high collar. She wears no jewelry.
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