A very pretty woman poses at the Thors studio in San Francisco, California. She is quite fashionable in her attractive large buttoned coat and her hat. Note her ruffled collar and cuffs. She is wearing earrings. The reverse of the photograph is dated “November 1879”. To learn more about Louis Thors and to view more of his photographs, click on the category “Photographer: Thors”.
It looks like the right hand or the area around it have been touched up. She is not wearing gloves, is she?
Magnification reveals that she is wearing very thin gloves. To the bare eyes it looks like her veins are showing on the back of her hands. After magnifying the image it is clear that what looks like veins is actually a designed pattern on the back of the gloves.