Unidentified / Identification Conflict

Photograph

Greene Connections

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2023.12.68

Description

Carte-de-Visite photograph. Handwritten inscription on reverse of image reads, "Katherine Able / Linton / & / Henry Linton." This caption indicates that the subjects are Henry Linton [1809-1887] and Catherine (Abel) Linton [1810-1888]. However, in the Mary (Vance) McCann Collection, there are two images of couples identified as Henry Linton [1809-1887] and Catherine (Abel) Linton [1810-1888], and two more images of men identified as Henry Linton [1809-1887]; unfortunately, photograph analysis indicates that the pictures are not all of the same people, calling all of these identifications into question and requiring further research (see item # MILB-AN001-0002-0029, item # MILB-AN001-0006-0036, item # MILB-AN001-0006-0037, item # MILB-AN001-0006-0038). It seems likely that at least some of the Linton captions were well-meaningfully written in error by later generations that had not personally known the people pictured. This image also appears in the John Robert Rice Collection, see item # RICE-AN001-0002-0029. Siblings and in-laws of Gredelia (Rice) Vance [1834-1901] appear in both the John Robert Rice Collection and the Mary (Vance) McCann Collection. Original, professional photograph from F. W. Plummer, Photographer, Hornbrook's Block, 1138 Main Street, Wheeling, W. Va.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Carte de Visite

Collection

Mary (Vance) McCann Collection

Made/Created

Studio

Plummer, F. W. (Studio)

Date made

circa 1860 - circa 1890

Place

Location

West Virginia / Ohio County / Wheeling

Lexicon

Search Terms

Unidentified--People

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

MILB-AN001-0006-0037

Web Links and URLs

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Provenance

Provenance Detail

People - Vance Series - Mary (Vance) McCann Collection

Owner/Agent

Miller, William Marshall

Acquisition Method

Digital

Acquisition Date

2023

Notes

The Mary (Vance) McCann Collection was passed from George Birch Vance [1870-1928] and Jessie Dell (McFarland) Vance [1868-1935] with the ownership of their home in Mapletown, Monongahela Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, to their daughter, Mary (Vance) McCann [1898-1987], and her husband, Marshall Albert McCann [1895-1956]. Mary (Vance) McCann left the collection to her grandson, William Marshall Miller, who owned and shared the collection with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2023. SOURCE CITATION: Carte-de-visite; circa 1860-1890, image by F. W. Plummer, Photographer, Hornbrook's Block, 1138 Main Street, Wheeling, W. Va.; item no. MILB-AN001-0006-0037, Vance Series, Mary (Vance) McCann Collection, shared by her grandson, William Marshall Miller; Greene Connections Archives Project (www.GreeneConnections.com).