A 4"x6" glass plate negative, full figure portrait photograph of Oren and Tinnie Thayer, David City, Nebraska. The man is wearing a beard and mustache, three-piece suit with white shirt and knotted tie, a long-haired full-length fur coat with wide collar and a wide-brimmed, felt hat. The woman is dressed in a floor-length skirt and white stand-collar blouse, ankle-length, dark wool overcoat with bodice embroidery and wide cuffs on the gathered sleeves with a dark fur collar and fur scarf, wide-brimmed hat with ostrich feather and ribbon trim and black leather gloves, holding a box-style purse. They are standing in front of a painted backdrop featuring an ivy-covered column.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00095670012
Source
Original format: 4"x6" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Oren Mortimer Thayer was born December 4, 1855, in Winnebago, Illinois, to Elbridge & Mary Thayer. He married Mary "Polly" Farrell about 1876. They were divorced about 1905. Oren married Tinnie Belle Van Matre, December 12, 1906, in Schuyler, Nebraska. The photograph is probably their wedding picture. Tinnie was born January 21, 1873 in Illinois. Oren died October 29, 1932, in Dawson County, Nebraska, and Tinnie died January 21, 1934, in Kearney, Nebraska. They are both buried in the David City Cemetery.
