A 4"x6" glass plate negative, full figure portrait wedding photograph of Anton and Lucy Marik, Rescue, Nebraska. The groom is wearing a black three-piece suit a boutonniere with ribbon pinned to his lapel, white shirt and white bow tie. The bride is wearing wire-rimmed glasses, floor-length, long-sleeve, white dress with wide gathered flounce at the hemline with rows of large horizontal pleats, gored top-skirt scalloped and edged with two rows of bias fabric ruffle, contoured belt with covered buttons, gathered bodice with two rows of covered buttons and stiff, high-stand collar, floor-length tulle veil and headpiece of silk flowers and white ribbons, holding her bouquet in one hand. The couple is clasping right hands, standing in front of a painted backdrop of an ivy-covered column.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00095460001
Source
Original format: 4"x6" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Anton F. Marik was born August 1885 to Anton & Mary Marik in Czechoslavokia. He immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1891. According to the 1920 census, he was living in Dodge County, Nebraska, with his wife Lucy M. and working as a railroad foreman.
