A 4"x6" glass plate negative, full figure portrait photograph of Jay and Edith Stoddard, Route 1, Rising City, Nebraska. Jay is wearing a mustache, beard, three-piece suit, white shirt with stiff collar and black bow tie, sitting in a wooden chair. Edith is standing beside him with one hand on the back of the chair wearing a floor-length, pin-stripe dark dress with gored skirt, leather belt, sewn vertical pleats from shoulder to waist, white lace collar, exaggerated pleats on the sleeve caps of the long sleeves with wide tapered cuffs, standing in front of a painted backdrop.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00A04270000
Source
Original format: 4"x6" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Jay Stoddard was born in Indiana in 1853. He married Edith C. Lemmon in Indiana, October 29, 1882, and they raised six children on their farm near Rising City, Nebraska. Jay died in 1935 and is buried at Circle Mount Cemetery, near Rising City, Nebraska. Edith Lemon was born March 22, 1862, in Ulysses, Nebraska, to William and Lois McIntyre Lemon. Edith died September 18, 1948 and is buried in Circle Mount Cemetery, near Rising City.
