The detail hidden in plain sight
The discovery comes more than a century later. Sarah Mitchell, a historian and archivist in Richmond, digitized the high-resolution photograph when her attention wandered from the faces. What caught her eye was the wrist of a young girl, standing near the center of the image. Around it, faint but unmistakable circular marks were visible. Too even to be folds of fabric. Too purposeful to be the ravages of time.