Return to Photo Collections View previous item View next item View DOTY Collection Index View Photo Archives Index Contributor: Roger Glenn Doty Collection: Roger Glenn Doty Collection (Code: DOTY) Series: Weaver-Regester (Code: AN002) Item #: DOTY_AN002_0001 Photographer: A. Wallace, Artist, Waynesburg, Pa. Physical Detail: Carte-de-Visite Date: between 1 August 1864 and 1 March 1865 Caption: Jacob Weaver

Description / Citation: Carte-de-Visite photograph of Jacob Weaver [1821-1918] - husband of Sarah Regester. Original, professional photograph from A. Wallace, Artist, Waynesburg, Pa. There is a 1 cent tax stamp and 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. The Weaver-Regester Series photographs were passed from Jacob Weaver [1821-1918] and his wife, Sarah Regester [1823-1898] to their daughter Mary Elizabeth (Weaver) Watson [1846-1924] to her daughter Tennie Lee (Watson) Doty [1888-1969] to her son Wilbert Glenn Doty [1921-1981] to his son Roger Glenn Doty who owned and shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Photo Archives Project in 2007. The Weaver-Regester Series is a part of the Roger Glenn Doty Collection.

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