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Description	Albumen print on Carte de Visite Mount, MARKS: Back: Ely/25/ELM STREET/OSHKOSH, WIS./BRANCH AT NEENAH." Inscription:"Mrs. Thos. B. Petford/5-8-1896"
Year Range from	1884
Year range to	1887
Medium	Cardstock/Photographic Paper
Notes	Bust view image of Anna Petford, Mrs. Thomas B. Petford, Jr.. Anna is pictured wearing a dark colored dress with a fine white-lace collar. Her hair is in a bun (with netting visible) and held in place by a hair comb. She wears round earings with a horizontal bar across the center that matches her scarf pin. Thomas Petford, Jr. imigrated to the United States with his wife Anna, father (Thomas Boting Petford Sr.), his mother Mary Lowesmore Petford, siblings; John, Henry (Harry), Mary Ann, and Elizabeth Jenkins and her husband John, in 1845. They came through the port of New York and Thomas Jr. went ahead of the family to Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory and 114 miles beyond. The family soon followed in 1846. He first clerked for Augustin Grignon at his trading post on the Fox River, 1 1/2 miles north-east of the present site of Omro. In 1855 he leased the Grignon Hotel in Butte des Morts until he built the Petford Hotel in 1859. His wife Anna, born in May 2, 1825 in Worcestor, England and died May 8, 1896. They had two children, Thomas B. Petford III and Mrs. Ole Oleson.
Object ID	P2002.3.10
Object Name	carte de visite
People	Petford, Anna
Place	Oshkosh, WI
Print size	4 " x 2 1/2"
Subjects	Portrait photographs Female Pioneers Hotels Immigrants Emigration & immigration
Title	Anna Petford

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