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Collection: People and Places of Swain County: the Frank Fry Collection

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Table 1: Statistics Concerning Appalachian Midwives

A table concerning data retrieved for a study done on Appalachian midwives in the 20th century

Tags: 20th Century, midwifery, motherhood, motherhood in the south, southern appalachia

Mattie Fry with her daughter, Catherine Fry

Tags: 20th Century, Appalachian Women, glass plate negative, midwifery, motherhood, North Carolina

Mattie Fry with an infant.

A glass plate negative of Mattie Fry holding an infant.

Tags: 20th Century, Appalachian Women, bryson city, children, infants, women

Mattie Fry and Frank Emmett Fry Jr.

This glass plate negative is part of the Frank Fry Collection and shows Mattie standing next to her young, firstborn son Frank Emmett Fry Jr. (1901-1981).

Tags: 20th Century, children of southern appalachia, midwifery, motherhood in the south, women of Appalachia

Lithograph Warning Of Flash Fashion

This glass plate negative is part of the Frank Fry Collection and shows Mattie and Frank with two children. Frank Emmitt Fry II (1901) is in Mattie's arms, and Harold Eugene Fry (1902) is in the baby carriage. Based on the ages of the children, this…

Tags: 20th Century, bryson city, family portrait, glass plate negative, motherhood, motherhood in the south, women of the 20th century

First Baptist Church in Bryson City, North Carolina

This glass plate negative labeled church at Byson City is part of the Frank Fry Collection and shows a portion of the town along the Tuckaseegee River with the First Baptist Church at the center of the image.