A 4"x6" glass plate negative, full figure portrait photograph of Harvey L. Boston, David City, Nebraska, with his two daughters, Edith and Floy. Harvey is wearing a mustache, slacks, white shirt with stiff collar, light-colored vest, dark knotted tie and high-top shoes, sitting in an upholstered boudoir chair with fringe and tassel trim. Edith and Floy are wearing white ruffle-trimmed long-sleeve dress, dark tights and shoes, sitting in front of him on a patterned carpet, playing with dolls.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
BSN04900000
Source
Original format: 4"x6" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Harvey L. Boston was born January 27, 1871, in McCallsburg, Iowa, to John and Sarah Boston. He moved to David City with his parents in 1891. It is assumed that he worked for at least one photographic studio before opening the Boston Studio in 1893. He purchased the Reynolds Studio in 1897. He married Margaret Patterson, August 15, 1899. Daughters Floy, born circa 1901, and Edith, born circa 1902, are pictured with him in the studio. Harvey died Mary 6, 1927, and is buried in the David City Cemetery. As daughters of the local photographer, many photographs of Floy and Edith have survived in the Boston Studio negative collection. Both girls 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 took over the business in 1945. Floy passed away in 1977 and Edith died in 1986.
