Rice-Fordyce Album 02, Photo 27 - Homer Corbly Fordyce [1807-1862]
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Name/Title
Rice-Fordyce Album 02, Photo 27 - Homer Corbly Fordyce [1807-1862]
Entry/Object ID
2019.41.114
Description
Carte-de-Visite reproduction of an earlier cased photograph of Homer Corbly Fordyce [1807-1862] - husband of Jane Baily, son of John Fordyce and Elizabeth Garard.
The original was likely taken during the 1850s, photographer unknown. The Carte-de-Visite reproduction of the original was taken by A. Wallace, Waynesburg, Pa. and has a 3-cent tax stamp on the back side indicating that the CDV dates to the Civil War, probably between 1 August 1864 and 1 March 1865 during the time when a tax stamp higher than 1 cent was used.
Rice-Fordyce Album 02 - Rice-Fordyce Series - John Robert Rice Collection
Acquisition Method
Digital
Acquisition Date
2006
Notes
The Rice-Fordyce Series was passed from Joshua Rice [1840-1896] and his wife, Henrietta Fordyce [1846-1920], to their son John Lockwood Rice [1886-1964] and his wife, Mary Irene Phillips [1887-1959], to their son John Robert Rice who owned and shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2006.
SOURCE CITATION: Rice-Fordyce Album 02, Photo 27 - Homer Corbly Fordyce [1807-1862]; original image taken circa 1850-1860, photographer unknown; reproduction created 1864-1865, by A. Wallace, Waynesburg, Pa.; item no. RICE-AN001-0002-0027, John Robert Rice Collection, Greene Connections Archives Project (www.GreeneConnections.com).
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