Cabinet card of Bertha Searcy

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A cabinet card photograph of Bertha Searcy taken by B. C. Wallace in Huntsville, Alabama. Searcy’s portrait captures her from the waist up, fading out from her waist below. She is wearing a light colored dress with a dark color neckline that extends down her throat and on her shoulders. There is a crack running horizontally through the center of the card. At the bottom margin is printed text information on the photograph studio [B. C. Wallace / HUNTSVILLE, / ALA.]. On the back in pencil, the name of the sitter is handwritten at the top center [Bertha Searcy] and a note written below in ink [To Mother].

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