This cabinet card features a very beautiful and fashionably dressed young woman. Her name, Emma Arter, is listed on the reverse of the cabinet card. Miss Arter is wearing a stylish hat and a pretty fur collar. She appears very self assured. When I first saw this photograph, I was convinced that Miss Arter was a theater actress. Preliminary research found no information about an actress with that name. More general research could not locate any confirmed biographical information about this lovely young lady. This cabinet card is from the studio of C. S. Roshon of Lebanon, Pennsylvania. According to printing on the reverse of the photograph, the image was produced in 1891. The Roshon Galleries were located at 142 North 8th Street, and 22 South 9th street, in Lebanon. Roshon also had a studio in Harrisburg and another gallery in Morristown, New Jersey. To view other photographs from Roshon’s studio, click on the category “Photographer: Roshon”. SOLD
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