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Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis
Credit: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Original Author: Unknown
Created: Nineteenth century
Medium: Daguerreotype

Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis

Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis, an Episcopal lay leader and the wife of George Washington Parke Custis, the stepgrandson of George Washington, is dressed in a checked dress and a bonnet in this hand-tinted daguerreotype.

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