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Emilie Blackburn was born in Tallahassee on July 5, 1906, to Alfred Bernard Blackburn Sr. (1870-1916) and Fannie Blake Byrd (1868-1914). Emilie attended Florida State College for Women from 1925 to 1929, where she earned a degree in education. As a FSCW student, Emilie joined the Kappa Delta sorority, along with three of her sisters - Fannie, Bessie, and Edith; five cousins - Janet, Clifton, Elizabeth, Kate, and Rubie Byrd; and a third cousin, Mary Simpson Yarbrough. Emilie Blackburn was a public school teacher, ran a boarding house, and spent some time in Bremerhaven, Germany. She passed away April 19, 2001 in St. Johns County.
Corinne Turnbull Yarbrough, daughter of Theodore Turnbull (1842-1896) and Mary Simpson (1845-1889), was born in Leon County on November 29, 1864. She is the second cousin, once removed, of Emilie Blackburn, related through Richard C. Parish, grandfather of Corinne and great-grandfather of Emilie. When Corinne was a child, a Black nursemaid named Creasy Lloyd cared for her. Creasy was from Narcoossee, Florida, and was reportedly nearing 100 years of age when she died on January 26, 1930.
Summary:
This collection consists of 10 portraits of unidentified Tallahassee residents taken by photographer Alvan S. Harper between 1884 and 1911 and donated to the State Archives by Emilie Blackburn. Subjects are likely members of the Blackburn, Byrd and Yarbrough families. It also contains two photographs of Creasy Lloyd from 1904, as well as a colored pencil sketch of her from 1895.
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Select images, including those of Creasy Lloyd, have been digitized and are avilable on the Florida Memory web site: https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/photographs/
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For more records of the Blackburn, Byrd, and Yarbrough families, see Collection M83-26, Yarbrough Family Papers, 1880-1940 (.5 cubic foot) and Collection M88-72, Byrd Family papers, 1850-1970 (3 cubic feet). Collection M87-30 Alvan S. Harper Photographs consist of the bulk of Haprer's surviving images, while Collection M82-52, Alvan S. Harper Tallahassee Photographs, contains additional Tallahassee images taken by Harper.
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