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        "tombstone": "The Tangled Skein, c. 1910. Nancy Ford Cones (American, 1869\u20131962). Gelatin silver bromide print, toned; image: 24.6 x 19.7 cm (9 11/16 x 7 3/4 in.); paper: 25.1 x 20.1 cm (9 7/8 x 7 15/16 in.); matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1988.166",
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        "title": "The Tangled Skein",
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                "inscription": "Written in pencil on verso: \"Tangled Skein / ca 1910 / Grandma Cones & MFC\"; \"LC 16, 14\"; \"M.F.C. 1981\"",
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                    "description": "CMA, March 17 - May 14, 1989: \"Photographs: Recent Acquisitions,\" Gallery D.",
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                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.",
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                "biography": "Nancy Ford Cones American, 1869-1962\r\n\r\nNancy Ford Cones (born Nancy Ford in Milan, Ohio) began her photographic career in 1895 as a retoucher at Waldo Studio in Fostoria, Ohio. Two years later her father bought her a half-interest in a photography studio in Mechanicsburg. The studio partnership did not work out, however, and Ford moved to South Lebanon, Ohio, to be with her family. She continued to take photographs and in 1898 met James Cones, a self-taught photographer who ran a studio in Lebanon. They began working together, taking portraits of many of the well-to-do in Cincinnati, and two years later they married.\r\n\tCones and her husband then operated a photography studio in Xenia, Ohio, for a year before opening a studio in Covington, Kentucky, in 1901. Six years later they purchased a farm in Loveland, Ohio, which became their permanent residence. During these years Cones entered a number of competitions sponsored by manufacturers to promote their products. She won second place in Kodak's 1902 competition as well as in Bausch & Lomb's 1903 contest, and in the 1905 Kodak competition she again came in second, with Edward Steichen taking first prize and Alfred Stieglitz third. Kodak began purchasing prints by Cones to use in its advertising campaigns.\r\n\tCones also took part in pictorial salons in the United States and Europe, and her work began appearing on the covers of publications such as Woman's Home Companion, Country Life in America, and Browning's Magazine. She remained active as a photographer until her husband's death in 1939, choosing as her primary subjects portraiture, scenes of rural life in Ohio, and allegorical studies. M.M.",
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