20.17.13
Print, Photographic, Carte de Visite
1881 Approximate
Sophia Beese Mahler. Material: paper. Size: 2 1/2" x 4". Description: sepia carte de visite portrait of Sophia Beese (Mrs. Fred Mahler); image of a young woman with her hair pulled to the back of her head except for a high mass of short curls and an ornamental comb on top; she is wearing long earrings in pierced ears, ruffled bodice on a dark long sleeved dress with a white lacy ascot and brooch; identified as Mrs. Sophia Mahler nee Beese; photographer Fred Palmer, Waseca, Minn.
Sophia Beese married Fred Mahler in Steele County in 1881.