Frank Jones Album (Selected Photos) - Mt. Zion Brass Band
Entry/Object ID
2020.8.53
Description
Dated 1936. Mt. Zion Brass Band - Greene County, Pennsylvania.
Caption reads: "These are the only living members of the famous original Mt. Zion brass band. A concert under the direction of Frank B. Jones was played in their honor at the time this photograph was taken."
No. 1 Harvey Cole
No. 2 Joseph Huffman
No. 3 Isaac Newton Jones
No. 4 Benson Mitchell
Original, candid, taken by Frank Blair Jones.
Music, Pastimes, Cole family, Jones family, Mitchell family, Huffman family
Other Names and Numbers
Other Number
GILB-AN001-0001-0108
Provenance
Provenance Detail
Frank Blair Jones Album - Zenia Gilbert Collection
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 - Dated 1936, Mt. Zion Brass Band, item no. GILB-AN001-0001-0108, Frank Jones Album Series, Zenia Gilbert Collection, Greene Connections Archives Project (www.GreeneConnections.com).
