Return to Photo Collections View previous item View next item View MADD Collection Index View Photo Archives Index Contributor: Peter Madden and his wife, Debi Collection: Helen Jane (Allen) Madden Collection (Code: MADD) Series: None Item #: MADD0027 Photographer: Partridge's Gallery, Wheeling, Va. Physical Detail: Carte-de-Visite Date: early 1860s Caption: Unidentified Can you help to identify this photo? If so, please email Candice Buchanan.

Description / Citation: Carte-de-Visite photograph. Original, professional photograph from Partridge's Gallery, Wheeling, Va. (Note that this photo stamp reads Va. instead of W. Va.) The Helen Jane (Allen) Madden Collection photographs were found in a trunk from the home of Robinson Hare [1836-1907] and his wife, Nancy (Fleming) Hare [1840-1931], in Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. Their youngest daughter Eva Hare, who never married or had children, was the last of the family to occupy the home. Upon her death the trunk and its contents were passed to her grandnieces and grandnephews. Helen Jane (Allen) Madden, the daughter of Dora Gail Hare and her husband, Isom Nathan Allen, came into possession of the trunk, which sat in her basement for many years. Dora Gail (Hare) Allen was the daughter of William Silas Hare [1864-1937] and his wife, Lydia Jane Brock [1869-1935]. Through this family line Helen Jane also received Brock family photographs which were added to the trunk's contents. The trunk and its contents were passed from Helen Jane (Allen) Madden to her son Peter Madden and his wife, Debi, who shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Photo Archives Project in 2007.

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