A 4"x6" glass plate negative, bust portrait photograph of Miss Hazel Betzer, David City, Nebraska, wearing a long sleeve dress of white fabric printed with bouquets of small, dark flowers, contrasting ribbon belt tied in a bow at the waist, a wide fabric ruffle outlining the bodice yoke seam and extending over the sleeve cap, with stiff, high-stand collar of tiny vertical pleated fabric.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00033380000
Source
Original format: 4"x6" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Hazel Betzer was born in David City, Nebraska, February, 1885, to Alex & Lucretia Betzer. Her father was the editor of the local newspaper while Hazel attended school in David City. Hazel and her parents moved to Omaha, Nebraska, some time before the 1910 census where Hazel and her father both worked in the newspaper business. She married Dow Smith and died March 15, 1974, in Miller, South Dakota.
