Cabinet card of Bertha Searcy
National Museum of African American History and Culture

Cabinet card of Bertha Searcy

B. C. Wallace, American · late 19th century

silver on photographic paper
National Museum of African American History and Culture
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of African American History and Culture

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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