A 4"x6" glass plate negative, portrait photograph of three members of the Melvin Bauer family and his unidentified sister. Melvin is wearing a mustache, dark suit and waistcoat, white shirt with stiff front and collar with a bow tie. His wife daisy is wearing a sheer white blouse with gathered, tiered sleeve cap, brocade stand collar with brooch, cummerbund belt and skirt, her long braided hair in a knot on top of her head. Melvin's unidentified sister is wearing wire-rimmed glasses and a long-sleeve, black dress with horizontal tucks in the ruffled-edged bodice insert and ruffle stand collar. Emmet is wearing a white dress with gathered yoke and gathered, eyelet tiered sleeve cap and eyelet ruffle around the jewel neck.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00026150000
Source
Original format: 4"x6" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Emmett Bauer was born March 6, 1896, to Melvin and Daisy Bauer. He died October 28, 1906, at ten years of age, in Sioux City, Iowa. He is buried in the David City Cemetery. Daisy Bauer was born November 1875, in Illinois. She married Melvin Bauer, a bank cashier in David City. They had three sons: Emmett, Morris and Morrell.
