Scrapbook containing ancestor portraits

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Scrapbook containing ancestor portraits

Phillips Library Collection

Scrapbook containing ancestor portraits of Chinese men and women (detail), about 1880–1911

Artist in China. Watercolor and ink on paper, h. 12 3/8 in. (31.4 cm). Phillips Library. Gift of Thomas Franklin Hunt, before 1898; or purchase, Ward Memorial Fund, after 1900. China Ward Collection (750 S433 ++)