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Title:
Photograph of Alma Ivey
Date:
1881 (circa)
Description:
Portrait of Alma Ivey from New Orleans, Louisiana. She attended the Wesleyan Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia where she was fatally stricken with typhoid fever in 1882. The photo was taken at Edmund Berkeley's 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:
Ivey, Alma d. 1882
Staunton (Va.) -- History
Edmund Berkeley (photographic studio, Staunton, Va.)
Photography -- History -- 19th century
Photography -- Social aspects -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century
Photography of women -- Virginia
Photographs

Geographic Term:
Durham (N.C.)
Staunton (Va.)
New Orleans (La.)

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