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Croft Rectory, portrait of girl by Lewis Carroll

Label on reverse reads: A little Croft girl, known simply as "Coates", daughter of an employee at the Rectory. One of Lewis Carroll's earliest photographs, taken at Croft Rectory in 1857.

People:

Coates

Date:

1857

Period:

1850 - 1875

Place:

Croft

Item Type:

photograph

Artist:

Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge

Reference:

DR09255

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