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Wearing her customary black garb, Sophia Anstice poses for a studio portrait. An enterprising businesswoman, she established a chain of successful drapery and dressmaking stores in the Nelson region after the illness and subsequent death of her first husband forced her to become the family breadwinner.
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Nelson Provincial Museum, Tyree Studio Collection
Reference: 40031
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