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_0123 Photographer: No photographer listed. Physical Detail: Cabinet Card Date: mid-1870s to mid-1880s Caption: Unidentified (See description below for clues.) Can you help to identify this photo? If so, please email Candice Buchanan.

Description / Citation: Original, professional photograph, no photographer listed. A handwritten notation beside this photo says, “One of the Barnes. Don’t know which one.” The note may or may not actually refer to this photo. The only other photos in the collection identified as Barnes relatives are Carte-de-Visites dating to the 1860s of Elizabeth (Barnes) Kent and her sister Martha J. Barnes. This photo is a Cabinet Card, probably dating mid-1870s to mid-1880s based on the fashions expressed. The Barnes women identified in the CDVs had several brothers, the photo may be of one of them. Three younger brothers, William (born about 1824), Henry (born about 1827), and Abraham (born about 1829) are all possibilities. 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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