A 3"x4" glass plate negative, bust portrait photograph of Queene H. Snow, David City, Nebraska, wearing a long-sleeve lacy, white dress with ribbon belt tied around her waist, a wide sheer ruffle sewn on the scoop-neck bodice seam, a white scarf wound around her neck and tied in a knot behind to simulate a high-stand collar and a large black, velvet hat with black ostrich feathers, black netting and printed silk accent under the upturned brim.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00032760003
Source
Original format: 3"x4" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Queene Hortense Snow was born in Nebraska, October 31, 1882, to Frank & Hortense Cassatt Snow. Her father worked in a hardware store and later became a railroad agent in David City, Nebraska. Queene was a talented musician and began teaching music at an early age. She performed often at the Thorpe Opera House. She married Henry Givens Cox who was also musically talented and an early conductor of the Omaha Symphony. Queene died May 1963, in Iowa. She and her husband endowed the Cox-Snow Music Center (a 200-seat recital hall, rehearsal hall & classrooms) at Central College in Pella, Iowa. Queene also funded a permanent scholarship in David City, Nebraska. at David City High School.
