A 4"x6" glass plate negative, bust portrait photograph of Charles and Virginia Trout, Ansley, Nebraska. Charles is wearing a dark suit, white shirt and white knotted tie. Virginia is wearing wire-rimmed glasses, long-sleeve white dress with tucks across the square-necked bodice insert, bands of eyelet bordering the insert of tucked fabric, eyelet high-stand collar edged with white lace ruffle, a long watch chain around her neck and her brunette hair combed back over pods.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00B09510000
Source
Original format: 4"x6" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Charles Trout was born in April, 1890, in Butler County. His parents farmed and he attended school in the Octavia area. He married "Goldie" Virginia Saul in 1910. She was a member of the first graduating class of Octavia High School in 1907. They moved to a farm east of Ansley, Nebraska, following their marriage and raised three children. They returned to Butler County in 1928 and lived on a farm near Octavia. Charles died in 1937.
