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| Title | Medora Von Hoffmann, seated in Turkish garb |
| Date of Original | between 1875 and 1882 |
| Description | Medora Von Hoffmann, sits for a formal portrait wearing Turkish garb. A small table with a cup and tea or coffee pot is visible next to her, and she leans on a stack of cushions. This photograph was taken prior to her marriage to the Marquis de Mores in 1882. |
| Ordering Information | http://history.nd.gov/archives/whatphotos.html |
| General Subject | Women
Portraits
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| Subject (LCTGM) | Portrait photographs
Costumes
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| Personal Name | Mores, Medora Von Hoffmann, marquise de
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| Decade | 1870-1879
1880-1889
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| Item Number | 00042-041 |
| Format of Original | Photographic prints
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| Notes | Photographer unknown.
Title created by staff. |
| Relation | [Is Part Of] Marquis de Mores Collection Mss 10036 |
| 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 | Marquis de Mores Photograph Collection 00042
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| Credit Line | State Historical Society of North Dakota (00042-041) |
| Rights Management | Rights transferred to the State Historical Society of North Dakota. |
| Digital ID | sh0004241 |
| OCLC number | 17732729 |
