A 3"x4" glass plate negative, full figure portrait photograph of Miss Ida Jacob, teacher, Bellwood, Nebraska. She is wearing a floor-length, black wool skirt with ribbon trim and matching long-sleeve jacket with ribbon trim on the cuffs, bodice and stand collar. She is wearing a black hat with wide looped-ribbon on top, wire-rimmed glasses, black leather gloves, holding a purse by its chain handle, standing in front of a painted backdrop that features an ivy-covered column.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00096610000
Source
Original format: 3"x4" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Ida Jacob was born in Bellwood, Nebraska, August 1883, the daughter of Carl and Frances Zimmer Jacob. Ida married Anton Hayek, September 6, 1910, in Romerstadt, Austria. In 1911, Anton and Ida returned to Bellwood and opened a restaurant. They later moved to Omaha and then to California, where Anton died. Ida returned to David City where she died April 17, 1985.
