A 3"x4" glass plate negative, full figure portrait photograph of Daisy and Emmet M. Bauer, David City, Nebraska, with an unknown baby. Daisy is wearing an ankle-length wool travel-suit with long skirt, knee-length over-dress with hemline vents topped with a row of covered buttons, long tapered sleeves with pointed, contour hem and button trim, black, scarf epaulettes on the shoulders and a row of buttons from shoulder seam extending down the sleeve, white blouse with ruffle front and stiff, high-stand collar, wire-rimmed glasses and a large black hat with black ribbon trim, a baby bottle sitting on the floor beside her foot, sitting on a chair, holding up a baby who is sitting on a bench beside her. The baby is wearing a long white cotton gown with eyelet-edged slip showing beneath the gown, sitting on a satin-trimmed blanket on a bench. Emmet is sitting on the bench beside the baby with one arm holding up the baby's head, wearing a suit with knee-length pants, black leggings, high-top shoes and white shirt with large Buster Brown collar, on a dark, fur rug.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00034920002
Source
Original format: 3"x4" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Emmett Bauer was born March 6, 1896, to Melvin and Daisy Bauer. He died October 28, 1906, at ten years of age, in Sioux City, Iowa. He is buried in the David City Cemetery. Daisy Bauer was born November 1875, in Illinois. She married Melvin Bauer, a bank cashier in David City. They had three sons: Emmett, Morris and Morrell.
