Cecilia & little Mary

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Description:

Photograph of Cecilia (or Celia) Brown holding six month old Mary Ritchie Simmons. Handwritten on reverse, "Mary Ritchie Simmons about 6 mos. Cecilia Brown."

The 1932 Charleston City Directory has a Cecilia Brown listed as a "laundress" residing at 24 Gadsden Street and the 1930 Census has a Celia Brown living on Gadsden Street. Research is ongoing.

Gift of Thomas McQueeney.