A 4"x6" glass plate negative, portrait photograph of Charles H., Jessie, Frank and Lula Harris, David City, Nebraska. Charles is wearing a beard, mustache, dark, three-piece suit, white shirt with stiff collar and dark knotted tie. Jessie is wearing a dark skirt, belt with decorative metal buckle and long-sleeve dark satin blouse with vertical tucks across the bodice, decorative buttons on the front placket and stand collar with white cut-work lace collar overlay with jabot and brooch. Frank is wearing a dark, three-piece suit, white shirt with stiff collar and dark knotted tie. Lula is wearing a long white dress with rows of horizontal tucks above the hem of the gathered skirt, short puff sleeves with rows of horizontal tucks and narrow ruffled edge, square yoke with round neck and rows of vertical lace ruffles, a bracelet on her arm.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00A06350000
Source
Original format: 4"x6" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Charles Henry Harris, born January 12, 1858, to Nathaniel and Ardilla Harris, Columbus, Indiana, was one of eight children. He married Jessie Jones, February 20, 1882. Jessie was born November 12, 1863. They moved from Indiana to Nebraska by train in 1885 and farmed east of Bellwood. In 1894, Charles bought a farm west of Bellwood where they lived until 1905, when they moved to David City. Charles Harris was the first County Assessor in 1903. He later worked in a bank and then worked in the County Treasurer's office. Frank and Lula are two of their five children. Frank was a pharmacist, married Lila Wilson, and had three children. Lula married Oscar Talbot and they farmed in Butler County until retiring in David City. Charles died in 1946 and Jessie died in 1949.
