A 4"x5" glass plate negative, full figure photograph of Floy and Edith Boston, David City, Nebraska. Floy, dressed in a calf-length, dark coat, dark leggings, high-top shoes and knitted cap is pulling on the tongue of a wagon. Edith, dressed in a striped coat, dark leggings, high-top shoes and knitted cap is lying on the ground in the over-turned wagon next to a brick sidewalk. A grove of barren trees, a partially collapsed wire fence and railroad tracks are visible in the distance.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
BOS00560000
Source
Original format: 4"x5" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Edith and Floy Boston were the daughters of Harvey L. and Margaret Patterson Boston, David City, Nebraska. As daughters of the local photographer, many photographs of them as children have survived in the Boston Studio negative collection. They attended David City public schools and both attended and graduated from Grand Island College. Floy married A. C. Hurlbert in 1925. After teaching in several Nebraska communities, A. C. "Prof" and Floy moved back to David City in 1945 to assume management of the Boston Studio. Edith assisted her father in the studio and following his death in 1927, assumed active management of the studio along with her mother. Edith married Anton Proskovec in 1941 and moved to Omaha but continued to commute to David City to operate the studio until her brother-in-law "Prof" took over the business in 1945. Floy passed away in 1977 and Edith died in 1986.
