1860-1869

Janet E. Finley Collection of Quilt History Photographs

Hanover, Pennsylvania, United States

Carte De Visite (CDV) c. 1868-1869
Photographer: P.S. Weaver, Hanover, Pennsylvania
Size: 2.5" x 4"

Little Anna Cornelia was born January 17, 1865. She lived 3 or 4 short years before passing away sometime in 1868 or 1869. Anna rests peacefully under her mother's appliqued leaf quilt. The photograph came to me in a carte de visite album filled with children's images from the Alleman family. The name "Father Alleman" is inscribed in pencil on this particular album page. The Allman, of German decent, were among the early settlers in the area. Horace Alleman received his medical degree from Gettysburg's Pennsylvania College. On Aril 16, 1847, he married Rebecca B. Winnemore, also a native of Lancaster County. The union produced 10 children, five of whom survived to adulthood. In 1859, Horace and Rebecca settled in Hanover, Pennsylvania (14 miles from Gettysburg), where Dr. Alleman practiced medicine for the next thirty years. The Battle of Hanover took place on June 30, 1863. During a lull in the fighting, after the first charge, the citizens carried the dead and injured from Hanover's streets. Dr. Alleman was one of the local physicians attending the eleven killed and forty-four wounded.

-- With permission of the publisher, excerpted from Janet E. Finley, Quilts in EveryDay Life 1855-1955 (Schiffer Publishing, 2012).