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The Allen sisters used many Deerfield, Massachusetts, people as subjects for their portrait photographs. This 1895 picture shows Helen Hawks Childs and Samuel Childs seated before a keyboard instrument. Both are dressed in late 19th century clothing. The photograph appeared in Good Housekeeping magazine in November, 1901.

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