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Penny photographs were inexpensive miniature portraits popular around the turn of the twentieth century, often sold in quantities at prices working out to roughly a penny per image. These photographer-operated studio portraits preceded the familiar automated photobooth strips.
Faint pencil markings appear on the reverse, but the sitter’s identity is unconfirmed.
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