A 4"x6" glass plate negative, full figure portrait photograph of Louie and Burdette Nantkes, Route 2, Bellwood, Nebraska. Louie is wearing knee-length dark pants, black leggings and high-top shoes, a double-breasted wool jacket with vertical topstitching and vertical groups of small round buttons, a wool belt worn loosely buckled at the waist, blouse with stiff, white Peter Pan collar and dark scarf tied into a large bow at the neck. Burdette is standing next to Louie, wearing a dark double-breasted suit with knee-length pants, long-sleeve tunic top with wide cuffs, narrow fabric belt with button closure worn loosely at the waist, large stiff white collar and dark scarf tied in the bow at the neck, black leggings and dark shoes, standing in front of a painted backdrop featuring conservatory windows, flower-filled pots, ferns and palm tree.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00A07980000
Source
Original format: 4"x6" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Louie Nantkes was born in Rising City, Nebraska, February 21, 1901, to Ubbie and Margery McGaffin Nantkes. He married Julia Kleine, April 24, 1925, in Seward, Nebraska. Louis and his wife raised three children. He was a businessman in Ulysses for many years before retiring to Seward. Louie died in Seward, January 14, 1979. Burdette Nantkes was born April 23, 1907, in Bellwood, Nebraska, to Ubbie and Margery McGaffin Nantkes. He married Pearl Polark and raised two children. He died June 23, 1964, in Lincoln, Nebraska.
