A 4"x6" glass plate negative, full figure portrait photograph of Floy and Edith Boston, David City, Nebraska. Floy is wearing a checkered, knee-length dress with gathered skirt, elbow-length sleeves and wide ruffle up the bodice and over the shoulder, black tights and black shoes with ribbon ties. Edith is wearing a dress with gathered skirt, large ruffled sleeve cap and ruffle trim at the cuff, black tights and black shoes. Both girls are wearing crocheted caps, with open umbrellas over their shoulders, standing in front of a painted backdrop that features an ivy-covered column.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
BOS00100000
Source
Original format: 4"x6" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Edith and Floy Boston were the daughters of Harvey L. and Margaret Patterson Boston, David City, Nebraska. As daughters of the local photographer, many photographs of them as children have survived in the Boston Studio negative collection. They attended David City public schools and both attended and graduated from Grand Island College. Floy married A. C. Hurlbert in 1925. After teaching in several Nebraska communities, A. C. "Prof" and Floy moved back to David City in 1945 to assume management of the Boston Studio. Edith assisted her father in the studio and following his death in 1927, assumed active management of the studio along with her mother. Edith married Anton Proskovec in 1941 and moved to Omaha but continued to commute to David City to operate the studio until her brother-in-law "Prof" took over the business in 1945. Floy passed away in 1977 and Edith died in 1986.
