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| Title | Medora, Marquise de Mores portrait postcard |
| Date of Original | 196- |
| Description | Medora, the Marquise de Mores poses for a formal painted portrait, reproduced on this postcard. |
| Ordering Information | http://history.nd.gov/archives/whatphotos.html |
| General Subject | People
Portraits
Women
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| Subject (LCTGM) | Postcards
Umbrellas
Portrait paintings
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| Personal Name | Mores, Medora von Hoffman, marquise de
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| Decade | 1960-1969
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| Item Number | 2011-P-047-01 |
| Format of Original | Postcards
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| Transcription | "From a portrait of Marquise de Mores, Medora, N.D."--Printed on front of postcard. |
| Notes | Title created by staff. |
| Biography/History | Medora Von Hoffmann was the daughter of a wealthy New York banker, and was born in 1856. She spoke seven languages, and was an excellent painter and shooter. She was living in Cannes with her parents when she met the Marquis de Mores, who she married in 1882. She had three children, Athenais, Louis, and Paul. She spent summers in Medora, the town her husband named after her, from 1883 to 1886. After the death of her husband in 1896, the Marquise de Mores remained in France, and opened her house to wounded soldiers during World War I. She died of complications of a wound received from nursing soldiers in 1921. |
| Repository Institution | State Historical Society of North Dakota
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| Repository Collection | Medora ND Postcard Collection 2011-P-047
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| Credit Line | State Historical Society of North Dakota (2011-P-047-01) |
| Rights Management | Copyright status unknown. |
| Digital ID | sh2011P04701 |
