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Title: Mrs. Parthenia P. Rue
Date Created and/or Issued: 1893
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2018-2090.
Bust-length portrait.
Born Parthenia Peter in 1832, to Hardin and Mary Peter, in Kentucky. Worked as teacher in Kentucky. Married James Boice Rue in 1854. Appointed to State Board of Lady Managers for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Died in 1915.
From: Peterson's magazine, July 1893 (vol. 1, no. 58), "California women in the World's Fair," p. 675.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Portraits.
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photomechanical print ; 2 7/8 x 2 3/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001635994CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Rue, Parthenia P.,, 1832-1915--Portraits
World's Columbian Exposition, (1893 :. Chicago, Ill.)--California--Photographs
Pioneers--California--San Francisco
Exhibitions--Illinois--Chicago
Philanthropists
Santa Rosa (Calif.)--Biography--Portraits
Photomechanical prints
Portrait photographs
Place: California
San Francisco
Illinois
Chicago
Santa Rosa (Calif.)

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