Lopes, Coelho Dias & Cª Ltda
Matosinhos – Portugal
Size 5 cm x 8 cm
Pauline L`Allemand
Miss L’Allemand was a famous operatic singer in Europe who dreamed of having her own touring company and producing an opera she had written. After going broke in Milwaukee, she attempted to settle in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, with her grown son. They lived a life of poverty, and were eventually pronounced insane and remanded to the Mendota State Hospital for the insane in Madison, Wisconsin in 1920.
Appears in the book Wisconsin Death Trip, by Michael Lesy.