Return to Photo Collections View previous item View next item View JACB Collection Index View Photo Archives Index Contributor: George & Anna (Fonner) Blystone Collection: Helen Mae (Jacobs) Fonner Collection (Code: JACB) Series: Jacobs-Kent (Code: AN001) Item #: JACB_AN001_0111 Photographer: J. H. Rogers, Waynesburg, Pa. Physical Detail: Carte-de-Visite Date: See description below Caption: [SEATED] Unidentified (Could she be Elizabeth (Kent) Porter?) and [STANDING] Maria (Kent) Thomas Can you help to identify this photo? If so, please email Candice Buchanan.

Description / Citation: Carte-de-Visite photograph of [SEATED] Unidentified and [STANDING] Maria (Kent) Thomas - wife of Lindsey Thomas, daughter of David Kent & Elizabeth Barnes. Original, professional photograph from J. H. Rogers, Waynesburg, Pa. Identification of Maria (Kent) Thomas [1846-1917] was accomplished by comparison with identified photos and analysis of genealogical research. The seated woman may be Maria's next elder sister, Elizabeth (Kent) Porter [1844-1884] of whom I do not yet have an identified photo to compare. Card mount has a pink back and a photographer stamp in 5 lines of curlicue lettering. There is no tax stamp or other marking. The corners of the picture are beveled. The physical characteristics of the photo indicate that it was probably printed during or after 1875; the fashions expressed date to the 1870s. 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 Photo Archives Project in 2005. Each generation added to the collection with photographs from their own family and in-laws. The Jacobs-Kent Series is a part of the Helen Mae (Jacobs) Fonner Collection.

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