Eleanor (Morris) Linskea Album, Photo 23

Photograph

Greene Connections

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2023.13.52

Description

Carte-de-visite. This carte-de-visite from Rogers Brothers, Photographers, Opposite Public Square, Waynesburg, Pa., is likely a circa 1870s-1880s reproduction of an earlier 1850s-1860s daguerreotype or ambrotype image. Families often took old images to photographers in order to have multiple reproductions or enlargements created that could be shared with family members. Eleanor (Morris) Linskea Album, Photo 23.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Carte de Visite

Collection

Elizabeth Jane (Davis) (Rex) Morris Collection

Made/Created

Studio

Rogers Brothers Studio

Date made

circa 1850 - circa 1870

Place

Location

Pennsylvania / Greene County / Waynesburg

Lexicon

Search Terms

Unidentified--People

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

MORK-AN001-0001-0023

Web Links and URLs

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Provenance

Provenance Detail

Eleanor (Morris) Linskea Album - Morris Series - Elizabeth Jane (Davis) (Rex) Morris Collection

Owner/Agent

Morris, Kathleen

Acquisition Method

Digital

Acquisition Date

2023

Notes

The Eleanor (Morris) Linskea Album originally belonged to Eleanor (Morris) Linskea [1835-1889], wife of John B. Linskea, daughter of John Morris and Charlotte Nichols. The carte-de-visite size album is inscribed on the front cover with her name, "Elly A. Linskea." After Eleanor's death at Dixmont State Hospital in Kilbuck Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, the album appears to have passed to her brother, Jonathan Morris Morris [1832-1915], whose descendants have maintained it as part of his family collection. The Elizabeth Jane (Davis) (Rex) Morris Collection was passed from Jonathan Morris Morris [1832-1915] and his wife, Charlotte (Rinehart) Morris [1834-1916], with the ownership of the Morris Bicentennial Farm in Fordyce, Greene Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, to their son, Jesse Hull Morris [1875-1947], and his wife, Elizabeth Jane (Davis) (Rex) Morris [1879-1980]. Elizabeth added her Davis family heritage to the collection, before passing it to her son, Jonathan Rex Morris [1919-2003], and his wife, Sarah Elaine (Hostetler) Morris [1924-2009], whose children, John Robert Morris and Kathleen (Morris) Miller, owned and shared the collection with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2023. SOURCE CITATION: Eleanor (Morris) Linskea Album, Photo 23; circa 1850-1870, this carte-de-visite from Rogers Brothers, Photographers, Opposite Public Square, Waynesburg, Pa., is likely a circa 1870s-1880s reproduction of an earlier 1850s-1860s daguerreotype or ambrotype image; item no. MORK-AN001-0001-0023, Elizabeth Jane (Davis) (Rex) Morris Collection, shared by her grandchildren, John Robert Morris and Kathleen (Morris) Miller; Greene Connections Archives Project (www.GreeneConnections.com).