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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 2 records found where LC Subject Heading is Photography -- Southern states -- History -- 19th century
	Letter from Mattie Logan Southgate to Celestia Muse Southgate, March 26, 1882 Mattie Logan Southgate writes her sister Lessie (Celestia Muse) Southgate with news of festive and somber events at the Wesleyan Female Institute. She provides a vivid description of Alma Ivey's death from "tiphoid and brain fever," the visit of Alma's mother to school, and the funeral procession from school to the railroad depot. Mattie tells Lessie about her new interest in drawing and her lessons with Reverend Harris' daughter, Mattie. She discusses her coursework with Lizzie Daniels in vocal music and her plans to study art and musical elocution in the next year. Mattie notes that she visited Edmund Berkeley's studio and she promises to send her sister a photograph.
	Letter from James Haywood Southgate to Mattie Logan Southgate, April 06, 1882 James Haywood Southgate sends his sister Mattie Logan Southgate a humorous letter and photograph. James provides an immodest analysis of his physical features by comparing them with those of nineteenth-century luminaries. "You will doubtless note the appearance of that Classic brow, that Websterian mouth, that Clay cut ear, that Calhoun nasal organ . . . ." He commends Mattie on her academic progress at the Wesleyan Female Institute, particularly her improvement in painting, and offers that he might be able to visit her in Staunton, Virginia.

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