Katie Wren "Snake Lady"

Cabinet Card. Young girl, perhaps 17 or 18 years old, wears a long white dress and holds a couple of large snakes. Written in pen on the front: "Katie Wren, WL MAIN Show-1895" Paper label: "W.L. Main Circus. 1895" Photograph by WENDT. On verso, written in pen: "Katie Wren, Snake Charmer, W.L. Main Shows, 1895, Wm. L. Purtill, 47 Liberty St., Westerly, RI."

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