A 5"x7" glass plate negative, portrait photograph of Pete, Ollie, Orval, Laurel and Albert Johnson, David City, Nebraska. Pete is wearing a mustache, dark three-piece suit, white shirt with stiff front and collar and knotted tie. Ollie is wearing a dark long-sleeve dress with braid trim sewn in a floral pattern around the scoop neckline, under blouse of plaid fabric with embroidered dots, stiff high-stand collar with brooch, holding Albert who is wearing a long, white cotton gown with long sleeves gathered at the wrist and wide fabric ruffle trimmed with lace outlining the round neckline. Orval and Laurel are wearing black suits with lapel pins, tweed vests, white shirts with stiff collars and bow ties, sitting in front of a painted backdrop featuring an open casement window with a vase of flowers on the window sill.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00037860000
Source
Original format: 5"x7" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Peter E. Johnson was born in Sweden and immigrated to the U.S. at the age of three with his family. Ollie, the daughter of Swan and Ida Anderson, also emigrated from Sweden and settled on a farm south of David City. They raised five children and farmed in rural Butler County.
