Unidentified

Photograph

Greene Connections

Name/Title

Unidentified

Entry/Object ID

2018.6.4

Description

Carte-de-Visite photograph. This CDV has been identified as Martha J. Barnes - daughter of William Barnes and Eleanor Ingersoll. However, her birth year circa 1820, would put her age in early 40s at the time of this photograph. The girl pictured is too young to be Martha. Original, professional photograph from A. Wallace, Waynesburg, PA. There is a 2-cent tax stamp on the back side indicating that the photo dates to the Civil War, probably between 1 August 1864 and 1 March 1865 during the time when a tax stamp higher than one cent was used.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Carte de Visite

Collection

Helen Mae (Jacobs) Fonner Collection

Made/Created

Studio

Wallace, Alexander (Studio)

Date made

circa 1865

Place

Location

Pennsylvania / Greene County / Waynesburg

Lexicon

Search Terms

Tax Stamps, Unidentified--People

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

JACB_AN001_0004

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Jacobs-Kent Series - Helen Mae (Jacobs) Fonner Collection

Notes

The Jacobs-Kent Series probably began with Eleanor Ann (Kent) Jacobs [1832-1902], wife of Henry Moore Jacobs, and daughter of David Kent & Elizabeth Barnes. Eleanor's photographs were passed to her son Joseph Warren Jacobs [1868-1947] to his daughter Helen Mae (Jacobs) Fonner [1922-1999] to her daughter Anna (Fonner) Blystone who with her husband, George Blystone, owned and shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2005. Source Citation: Unidentified, item no. JACB_AN001_0004, Helen Mae (Jacobs) Fonner Collection, shared by George and Anna (Fonner) Blystone, Greene Connections Archives Project (www.GreeneConnections.com).