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Raised as a Quaker, Dolly Paine left the sect to marry John Todd, was widowed, and then married James Madison in 1794. She was a gracious hostess at the White House for her husband and also President Jefferson. Legend credits Dolley Madison with…

Figure portrait of Lucy Ruiz from the knees up in a white frilly Victorian dress and matching floral hat. Lucy is standing straight with her hands in her pockets and her head looking diagonally to the right. Lucy Ruiz was the tenth child of Gabriel…

Portrait bust of Josefa Ruiz in diagonal profile view. She is wearing a frilly white Victorian dress with a matching floral Victorian hat atop braided hair. Josefa Ruiz was the ninth child of Gabriel and Rafaela Cota Ruiz. Born March 19 1873; died…

Portrait of a woman.

Portrait of a woman.