A 4"x5" glass plate negative, bust portrait photograph of Ralph Stryker, Rising City, Nebraska, wearing a mustache, dark three-piece suit, white shirt and white knotted tie.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00044270000
Source
Original format: 4"x5" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Ralph Stryker was born December 1, 1873, in the sod home of his parents, Henry and Amanda Walker Stryker, who homesteaded west of Rising City, Nebraska. He attended Fairview School that stood on land donated by his father. Eventually four generations of the family were to attend this school and three generations of the family taught there. After graduating from Western Normal Business College in Lincoln, Nebraska, he returned to Rising City and purchased the City Meat Market. In 1901, he married Theda Mae Harris and they raised six children on the family farm near Rising City.
