[2001.13.050] Coffin portrait of Margaretha Buck
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Westine, David
Westine, Katherine
Westine, Phillip
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Photographic image. Black and white. Image of a young child in a casket. Identified as the funeral coffin portrait of Margaretha Buck (born 22 February 1886, Scotland, Dakota Territory, died in 1900 at Richville, North Dakota), the seventh child of Johann “Michael” and Margaretha (Wolfert) Buck. Dated 1900. Photographer is possibly J. J. Hochhalter (rural Wishek); pre-Streeter, North Dakota. Courtesy of Ludwig and Christina Graf- Buck Collection, 2001.13, GRHC.