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Description
Lucretia Day Sewall, a native of Portland, is shown with one of her 10 children in a photograph taken about 1845.
She and her husband, Kiah Bayley Sewall, a native of Edgecomb, lived in Mobile, Alabama, from 1839 until 1865. He died on his way back to Portland.
They had 10 children. Eunice was born in 1838 in Portland and the other nine were born in Mobile, where Kiah Sewall had gone because of his health.
About This Item
- Title: Lucretia Day Sewall and baby, ca. 1845
- Creation Date: circa 1845
- Subject Date: circa 1845
- Location: Mobile, AL
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 13.7 cm x 10.5 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 105, Box 4/7
- Collection: Sewall family papers
- Object Type: Image
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- Debt
- Economic & social conditions
- Infants
- Land speculation
- Lawyers
- Real estate investment
- Recessions
- Sewall family
- Sewall, Kiah Bayley, 1807-1865--Family
- Sewall, Lucretia Day--Portrait photographs
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