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Small red velvet album with M A W 1868 engraved on front cover. Contains carte de visites, many of which are identifed. Album may have belonged to Mary Ann Rettew Willson, wife of George Willson, Sr. Their son George B. Willson and their niece, Mary Willson Rettew, were the last residents of Wheatland.
Small red velvet album with M A W 1868 engraved on front cover. Contains carte de visites, many of which are identifed. Album may have belonged to Mary Ann Rettew Willson, wife of George Willson, Sr. Their son George B. Willson and their niece, Mary Willson Rettew, were the last residents of Wheatland.
Small red velvet album with M A W 1868 engraved on front cover. Contains carte de visites, many of which are identifed. Album may have belonged to Mary Ann Rettew Willson, wife of George Willson, Sr. Their son George B. Willson and their niece, Mary Willson Rettew, were the last residents of Wheatland.
Small red velvet album with M A W 1868 engraved on front cover. Contains carte de visites, many of which are identifed. Album may have belonged to Mary Ann Rettew Willson, wife of George Willson, Sr. Their son George B. Willson and their niece, Mary Willson Rettew, were the last residents of Wheatland.
Small red velvet album with M A W 1868 engraved on front cover. Contains carte de visites, many of which are identifed. Album may have belonged to Mary Ann Rettew Willson, wife of George Willson, Sr. Their son George B. Willson and their niece, Mary Willson Rettew, were the last residents of Wheatland.
Older man, striped waistcoat, gray hair and beard, no mustache.
Provenance
Small red velvet album with M A W 1868 engraved on front cover. Contains carte de visites, many of which are identifed. Album may have belonged to Mary Ann Rettew Willson, wife of George Willson, Sr. Their son George B. Willson and their niece, Mary Willson Rettew, were the last residents of Wheatland.