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Marcelaine Hobson
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Quarter-length portrait of Marcelaine "Marcy" Hobson (1925-2010) looking to the right. Marcy is wearing a dark suit jacket and a white ruffled collar. Her long, thick hair has been curled and she has on dark lipstick. At the time of this photograph, Marcy was a 19-year-old student at the University of Wisconsin working on her degree in home economics. Her father Asher Hobson was a professor in agricultural economics at the University.
May 1945
Hobson, Asher
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