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Two photographs about Midwifery. The first is of midwives in training, and the other is an image of an unknown woman with a quote about the process of midwifing, saying the unknown doctor "reported her last case developed tetanus" due to the unwashed equipment.
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Pictures of Aurelio Angel Casañas and Madeline Casañas, parents of Aquilina Casañas Howell. Aurelio was a Cuban immigrant in Tallahassee who worked as a cabinetmaker, and his wife Madeline was a school principal at Ward Elementary School. Their daughter, Aquilina, was both the first woman and first African American to serve as Assistant Superintendent of Leon County Schools.
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Pictures of Sharon Mizzell and Von Mizzell Jr., grandchildren to Dr. Alpha Omega Campbell. Dr. Campbell was one of the few doctors in Tallahassee who served the African American community during the Jim Crow era, able to establish his own hospital in Virginia Street, Frenchtown (Tallahassee (Fla.)). More on his life, practice, and legacy can be read in the Riley Museum publication "A Good and Kindly Heart: The Amazing Life of Dr. Alpha Omega Campbell" written by his family, Laura McLoud Bell and Gaile McLoud Wiggins-Johnson.
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Pictures of Steve Beasley in Tallahassee (Fla.) The first image shows him on the far right with Ernest Smith and Ms. Smith on his left. The second picture is a portrait of him seated outside. A Tallahassee native, he is the son of former Florida A&M professor Sylvester “Jap” Beasley. A passionate photographer, Beasley has also established the renowned Capital Outlook newspaper and helped found the MLK foundation with the Rev. Moses General Miles and Dr. Marvin Davies, for whom the Florida Civil Rights Act is named, and in which Beasley currently still serves as CEO.
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Two pictures of George D. "Rabbit" Holliday, one of him in a basketball uniform and the other a portrait. George is related by marriage to Dallas and Claudia Baldwin, who co-founded St. John's AME Church. The Baldwin-Holliday family were prominent members of the Smokey Hollow community. His wife, Lucille Baldwin Holliday, and later Lucille Holliday Brown, was Leon County's first African American librarian.
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Two graduation portraits of Mildred Crawford from the Crawford family. They were taken at the Avery Studio in Frenchtown, Tallahassee. Her family members include Divillow Crawford, Victoria Twine, and digitized in this collection, Jerry Lee Crawford, Wilhelmina "Brown Baby" Crawford, and Leroy Wester.
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Two portraits of unidentified members of the Alexander Family from the Maggie Alexander Family Collection.
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Portraits of children from the Avery Studio in Frenchtown, Tallahassee operated by Joseph H. Avery Jr. Located in Virginia St., Avery captured African-Americans, more specifically "classy women, zoot suited men,... persons of distinction" and in this set, children, during the Jim Crow era when rarely other studios provided this service. He moved to Jacksonville in 1950, and later on to Washington, D.C. in the early 1960s, where he became the first Black photographer for the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Photographs from the Avery Studio in Frenchtown, Tallahassee, located on Virginia Street and operated by Joseph H. Avery Jr. Avery captured the African-American community in Tallahassee, more specifically "classy women, zoot suited men, and persons of distinction" during the Jim Crow era when rarely other studios provided this service. He moved to Jacksonville in 1950, and later on to Washington, D.C. in the early 1960s, where he became the first Black photographer for the U.S. House of Representatives.
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The first image is of Celia Witherspoon and the second is of her daughter Patrish Witherspoon, also sister to Iola Douglas. Celia was the wife of Rev. Willie Witherspoon. After emancipation, the Witherspoons purchased 140 acres on North Thomasville Road and later donated the land for the Horseshoe School. Celia lived to the age of 105 and passed away in Miracle Hill Nursing Home.
