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Bertha Blue (ca. 1877-1963) was a member of a well known African American family in Cleveland, Ohio. She was a teacher at
the Murray Hill Elementary School located in Little Italy, an Italian immigrant neighborhood on Cleveland's East side, from
1903 to 1947. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of Bertha Blue, her daughter Jane Darr, Welcome T.
Blue, Sr., and other family members and friends. Included in the collection are photographs of Jane Edna Hunter, Virginia
Bray, and G. Howard Fields. Events depicted are the weddings of Mabelle Blue and Jane Lee Darr, the tennis group with whom
Bertha Blue played, and Bertha Blue's first grade class.
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