Annie Elizabeth Redd and Ella Redd Fontaine

Photograph

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Patrick Henry's Red Hill

Name/Title

Annie Elizabeth Redd and Ella Redd Fontaine

Entry/Object ID

2023.30.20

Description

Cased double tintype photographs of Annie Elizabeth Redd Fontaine holding her baby daughter, Ella Redd Fontaine (left), and Ella Redd Fontaine as a young girl (right). The images are fitted into the case with a glass protector secured over a matte finish and wrapped with a brass preserver, all inside a wood-hinged case. The woman is wearing a dark-colored dress with a lace collar and bow at her neck, and the baby is dressed in a long, white gown in both images. The case has two brass hinges that allow it to open. A clasp holds the case together when closed. A romantic scene of a man courting a woman appears on both exterior sides of the case, surrounded by a decorative leafy border.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Tintype

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1866 - circa 1868

Time Period

19th Century

Dimensions

Height

3 in

Width

2-1/2 in

Depth

3/4 in

Provenance

Notes

Annie Elizabeth Redd, a great-great-granddaughter of Patrick Henry, was born on January 18, 1847, at "Woodlawn" in Henry County, Virginia. She married Rev. Patrick Henry Fontaine (1841-1915), also a great-great-grandson of Henry and her first cousin, on February 23, 1865. They had nine children, including the baby in both photographs, Ella Redd Fontaine (1866-1941). She died on February 21, 1936, in Bethel Hill, North Carolina, and was buried with her husband in the Amis Chapel Cemetery (Granville, North Carolina). Ella Fontaine appears in the left photograph with her mother at around six months old. She is slightly older in the right photograph, and appears to be around the age of one or two. This photograph was given to PHMF on May 3, 2023, by Monique and Philip Heller. They inherited this object and the others in this accession from her stepmother, Catherine Spotswood Fontaine Lawrence (1938-2015), a third-great-granddaughter of Patrick Henry. Annie Elizabeth Redd Fontaine and Ella Redd Fontaine were her grandmother and aunt, respectively.