| McClees & Germon Minerva Josephine Cates Ardis n.d. Daguerreotype, 1/9 plate, copy Archive Farms The Patrick Montgomery Collection, Object No. 2020.342 LL/118563 Handwritten label on verso of the quarter plate this copy was made from: "Mrs Minerva Josephine Cates Ardis. Sister of my father Dr John William Cates & daughter of Reverend Louis & Amanda Cates." Minerva Josephine Cates Ardis (1830-1917) was born in Tennessee, was married to Abram Lucius Ardis and died in Los Angeles, CA
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