A 4"x6" glass plate negative, full figure portrait photograph of Nicholas and Jake Demuth, children of Jake Demuth, David City, Nebraska. Jake is wearing a checked suit coat and vest, white shirt, plaid bow tie, short pants, black leggings and high-top shoes, holding a toy in one hand. Nicholas is wearing a floor-length, long-sleeve white dress, sitting on a wicker bench, holding a doll dressed in a long gown and bonnet. The boys are on a dark, fur rug, in front of a painted backdrop of an open casement window and vase with flowers.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00032630000
Source
Original format: 4"x6" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Nicholas and Jake Demuth were two of the twelve children born to Jacob and Elizabeth Schmit Demuth, who homesteaded in Butler County near Bellwood in 1870.
