We met Elba Vick Valle, eldest daughter of Samuel H. and Annie Washington Vick, here. A regular contributor to Black Wide-Awake shared these wonderful photos of the Valle family:

Curiously, Elba Vick and Carlos C. Valle were married twice — in December 1921 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and again in July 1922 in Wilson. The photo above appears to have been taken at or after the second ceremony, held at Samuel and Annie Vick’s Green Street home. Samuel Vick Sr. and Annie Vick are at far left, with Samuel Vick Jr. standing beside them. Cousin Bessie Parker Hargrave stands with a small girl, who is the youngest Vick child, Monte Vick Cowan. Newlyweds Carlos Valle and Elba Vick Valle stand at center. One of the flower girls is Doris Vick Walker. Daniel L. Vick may be the man standing behind the couple.

Carlos Valle is seated in the middle on the running board. Daughter Melba Gwendolyn Valle is seated in the lap of an unidentified man in the car.

Elba Vick Valle in about the 1950s.

Carlos Celedonio Valle y Ugarte (1892-1964) in an official portrait in his position as Grand Organizer for the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. Valle, a native of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, studied at Tuskegee Institute among a cadre of Afro-Latino students whose experience is set forth in Brian McClure’s 2013 University of Memphis dissertation, “Educating the Globe: Foreign Students and Cultural Exchange at Tuskegee Institute, 1898-1935.” (Mount Olive, North Carolina’s long-time Black physician Tomas Monte Rivera was also part of the Tuskegee-Puerto Rico program.)

Many thanks to V. Cowan!