Rice-Fordyce Album 02, Photo 27 - Homer Corbly Fordyce [1807-1862]

Photograph

Greene Connections

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2019.41.114

Description

Carte-de-Visite reproduction of an earlier cased photograph of Homer Corbly Fordyce [1807-1862] - husband of Jane Baily, son of John Fordyce and Elizabeth Garard. The original was likely taken during the 1850s, photographer unknown. The Carte-de-Visite reproduction of the original was taken by A. Wallace, Waynesburg, Pa. and has a 3-cent tax stamp on the back side indicating that the CDV dates to the Civil War, probably between 1 August 1864 and 1 March 1865 during the time when a tax stamp higher than 1 cent was used.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Carte de Visite

Collection

John Robert Rice Collection

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1850 - circa 1860

Lexicon

Search Terms

Fordyce family, Tax stamp

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

RICE-AN001-0002-0027

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Fordyce, Homer Corbly [1807-1862]

Web Links and URLs

DOWNLOAD high-resolution JPG image, DOWNLOAD high-resolution TIFF image, View Photos in Album

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Rice-Fordyce Album 02 - Rice-Fordyce Series - John Robert Rice Collection

Acquisition Method

Digital

Acquisition Date

2006

Notes

The Rice-Fordyce Series was passed from Joshua Rice [1840-1896] and his wife, Henrietta Fordyce [1846-1920], to their son John Lockwood Rice [1886-1964] and his wife, Mary Irene Phillips [1887-1959], to their son John Robert Rice who owned and shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2006. SOURCE CITATION: Rice-Fordyce Album 02, Photo 27 - Homer Corbly Fordyce [1807-1862]; original image taken circa 1850-1860, photographer unknown; reproduction created 1864-1865, by A. Wallace, Waynesburg, Pa.; item no. RICE-AN001-0002-0027, John Robert Rice Collection, Greene Connections Archives Project (www.GreeneConnections.com).