A 4"x6" glass plate negative, full figure portrait photograph of Frank, Anna, Mary and Agnes Sedlak, David City, Nebraska. Frank is wearing a dark three-piece suit with cross lapel pin, white shirt, knotted tie and dark felt hat with curled brim, sitting in a wicker chair. Anna is wearing a floor-length, long-sleeve print dress with ruffle-trimmed yoke, lace-edged placket with a floor-length white eyelet apron with scalloped edged and drop earrings, sitting on a wicker bench. Mary is wearing a dress with two gathered tiers of lace-edged fabric over the long sleeves and a row of wide, ruffled lace at the neck. Agnes is wearing a dark, calf-length, long-sleeve dress with gathered skirt, fabric flower at the waist front and wide, cascading lapels with white lace at the round neck.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00026200000
Source
Original format: 4"x6" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Frank was born May 16, 1845, in Bohemia to Joseph and Frances Jurek Sedlak. He married Anna Sabatka December 21, 1867 in Moravia. Anna was born May 1849 in Bohemia. Mary was born April 1883, and Agnes was born May 1887. Frank farmed in Oak Creek Township, Butler County, Nebraska. The other children in the family were: Joseph (b. 1878), Anna (b. 1880), John (b. 1885), Samuel (b. 1889) and Rudolph (b. 1891). Frank died January 10, 1931, in Seward, Nebraska. Anna died November 24, 1925. Frank & Anna are buried in St. Wenceslaus Cemetery, Bee, Nebraska.
