Frank Jones Album (Selected Photos) - L. L. Thomas Cornet Band

Photograph

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Greene Connections

Name/Title

Frank Jones Album (Selected Photos) - L. L. Thomas Cornet Band

Entry/Object ID

2020.8.17

Description

L. L. Thomas Cornet Band of Blacksville on the border of Greene County, Pennsylvania and Monongalia County, West Virginia. The band was led by Lot Lindsay Thomas [1868-1937] who is believed to be the decoratively dressed man wearing a top hat at the center of the group. His little daughter, Emma Isabelle Thomas [1899-1994] is beside him in a white dress. CROSS-REFERENCE: The West Virginia & Regional History Center at West Virginia University also holds a print of this photograph (Identifier 040937, Collection number A&M 1730). See WEB LINKS. Original, no photographer listed.

Collection

Zenia Gilbert Collection

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1900

Lexicon

Search Terms

Music, Pastimes, Thomas family, Unidentified--People

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

GILB-AN001-0001-0022

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Thomas, Emma Isabelle [1899-1994]

Person or Organization

Thomas, Lot Lindsay [1868-1937]

Web Links and URLs

West Virginia & Regional History Center (Identifier 040937, Collection no. A&M 1730)

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Frank Blair Jones Album - Zenia Gilbert Collection

Owner/Agent

Gilbert, Zenia Jane

Acquisition Method

Digital

Acquisition Date

2015

Notes

The Frank Jones Album Series of the Zenia Gilbert Collection was assembled by Frank Blair Jones [1879-1951] - husband of Lydia White, son of Ephraim McClelland Jones and Julia Ann Henderson. Frank was a U.S. Navy veteran and bandmaster. He was very interested in early local history and served as curator at the Greene County Historical Society. The album was passed from Frank Blair Jones [1879-1951] to his son Frank E. Jones [1919-1993]. Frank's niece, Valerie (daughter of William Ephraim Rodman Jones, granddaughter of Frank Blair Jones) received the album after her uncle's passing. Valerie arranged for the album to be maintained locally in the custody of Violet Elizabeth (Stockdale) Gilbert [1918-2006]. Violet's mother was Rachel Jane (Jones) Stockdale, sister to Frank Blair Jones. Violet passed the album to her daughter Zenia Gilbert who shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2015. Source Citation: Frank Jones Album - L. L. Thomas Cornet Band, item no. GILB-AN001-0001-0022, Frank Jones Album Series, Zenia Gilbert Collection, Greene Connections Archives Project (www.GreeneConnections.com).