The photograph, the source, and the unknowns
Three women in the winged caps of Zeeland, Sunday best worn for the inspectors. Whoever met them on the other side of the registry never appears in these photographs.
- Archive caption
- A mother and two daughters from Zuid-Beveland
- Creator
- Augustus Francis Sherman
- Date
- circa 1905-1914
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons (DPLA / University of Colorado Boulder contribution; NYPL original)
- Rights
- Photographer died 1925; created 1905-1914; NYPL/DPLA mark public domain · Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Source record
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Augustus Francis Sherman. “A mother and two daughters from Zuid-Beveland.” circa 1905-1914. Wikimedia Commons (DPLA / University of Colorado Boulder contribution; NYPL original). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mother_and_two_daughters_from_the_Netherlands_-_DPLA_-_ef935cd84151299b219fe04cc089ee3f.jpg. Viewed via Nostalgia Museum artifact 739, reviewed 22 August 2026. https://getnostalgia.ai/museum/artifact/OBDCTXEkXJQR5s1q/739/face/919
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