Shown opened within its tissue-guarded, ribbon tied folder, Dorothy Tucker, not quite 13 years old, strikes a pose with a fan inside her home on Staten Island, New York. She was most likely “performing” a part in a school play for “F.L.C.”, presumed to be the photographer of this work who was certainly an acquaintance of Dorothy’s amateur photographer father Charles Rollins Tucker.

print notes, presentation folder recto: In block, hand-inscribed letters:

F.L.C.

additionally dated in blue ink: May 18, 1912

annotated in graphite along lower margin: Dorothy Tucker

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