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Title:
Photograph of Mettie Ricketts
Date:
1881 (circa)
Description:
Portrait of Mettie Ricketts, student at the Wesleyan Female Institute. Image made at the Edmund Berkeley studio in Staunton, Virginia.
Source:
Southgate-Jones family papers, 1760-1982, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Ricketts, Mettie
Edmund Berkeley (photographic studio, Staunton, Va.)
Photographs
Staunton (Va.) -- History
Photography of women -- Virginia
Photography -- Social aspects -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century
Photography -- History -- 19th century
Wesleyan Female Institute (Staunton, Va.) -- Students -- History -- 19th century
Wesleyan Female Institute (Staunton, Va.)

Geographic Term:
Durham (N.C.)
Orange (Va.)
Staunton (Va.)

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