Idalene Cotton

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For a few years, Ben and his second family returned to Rhode Island for vacations.  This photograph of Idalene was probably taken in the summer of 1881.  By the next spring the photo was being used as part of a poster at the National Theatre in Philadelphia, as was Ben's photograph taken at the same studio in Providence.