A 4"x6" glass plate negative, full figure portrait photograph of Walter Pool, Rising City, Nebraska, and an unknown man. Both men are wearing dark, double-breasted suits, white shirts and knotted ties, dark overcoats laying over one arm and dark, felt wide-brimmed hats in their hand. One man has a white handkerchief in his breast pocket, the other man is holding a pair of leather gloves, standing in front of a painted backdrop featuring an ivy-covered column.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00096420001
Source
Original format: 4"x6" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Walter Pool was born August 13, 1885, in Tipton, Iowa, and came to David City with his parents shortly after he was born. He grew up on the family farm in Reading Township, graduated from Union Hill rural school and attended York Business College. He married Nina Bemis February 5, 1908. Walter and Nina farmed with his parents until 1917, then purchased their own farm northeast of Rising City in Reading Township and raised five children. They were lifetime members of the Rising City Methodist Church and very active in civic and social organizations. Nina died in 1951 and Walter died in 1953.
