Ann E. Thompson (Leak), 1881

Ann operating scissors with one foot and a pen with the other, she displays painted bookmark(?) ribbons. Photo by "ELLIOTT 139 Bourke St. E." On verso: written in pen: "Expect not to pass through life without a mixture of good and evil, Ann E.L. Thomson, Born without arms, Dec. 23, 1839, Georgia, USA, Feb. 8, 1881." On verso: written in pen: "Expect not to pass through life without a mixture of good and evil, Ann E.L. Thomson, Born without arms, Dec. 23, 1839, Georgia, USA, Feb. 8, 1881."