An 8"x10" glass plate negative, portrait photograph six members of the William Quade family, David City, Nebraska. The father is wearing a mustache, three-piece suit with lapel pin, white shirt and knotted tie. The two young men are wearing dark suits, white shirts with stiffened collars and ties. The mother is wearing a dark long-sleeved dress with lace-trimmed stand collar, brooch and chain necklace. One woman is wearing a dark skirt and long-sleeve white blouse with rows of dark trim sewn vertically on the bodice and in a scallop pattern on the chest, a large, dark fabric flower is pinned to her bodice and a velvet ribbon and brooch are tied around the soft, stand collar. The other woman is wearing a dark skirt and white, long-sleeve blouse with mini pleats sewn vertically across the bodice, a large softly-folded ribbon pinned to the bodice and a small brooch pinned to the stand collar of gathered fabric.
William Quade, born in Rhode Island, was a miller by trade. William married Emma Holmberg in Rhode Island, then moved the family to Dubuque, Iowa, and later to David City.
