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| Title | Medora, Marquise de Mores on horseback |
| Date of Original | 1900 |
| Description | The Marquise de Mores sits sidesaddle on a horse in a fenced yard. She wears a riding habit and carries a riding crop. A house and another outbuilding are visible in the background. |
| Ordering Information | http://history.nd.gov/archives/whatphotos.html |
| General Subject | Women
People
Sports & Recreation
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| Subject (LCTGM) | Horseback riding
Horses
Sidesaddle riding
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| Personal Name | Mores, Medora Von Hoffmann, marquise de
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| Decade | 1900-1909
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| Item Number | 00042-114 |
| 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 (00042-114) |
| Rights Management | Rights transferred to the State Historical Society of North Dakota. |
| Digital ID | sh00042114 |
| OCLC number | 17732729 |
