A 4"x6" glass plate negative, portrait photograph of five McKellips sisters, daughters of Darwin and Martha McKellips, David City, Nebraska. One woman is wearing a long sleeve plaid dress with plaid fabric ruffle edging the dark fabric bodice insert with stiff, high-stand collar, a white handkerchief tucked into the belt with metal buckle. Another woman is wearing a long-sleeve dress with the fitted bodice split to the waist and scalloped to the shoulder seam and outlined with braided trim, satin under blouse with stiff, high-stand collar and brooch with a fabric belt tied in a bow. Next to her is a woman wearing a dark, long-sleeve dress with fabric ruffle at the cuff, shirt-waist bodice with asymmetrical closure and scalloped, scoop neck edged with two rows of dark piping, silk under blouse with stiff, high-stand collar with brooch and a chain necklace looped down and tucked into her the self-fabric belt. Sitting in front, a woman is wearing a black long-sleeve shirt-waist dress with
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00035850000
Source
Original format: 4"x6" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Daughters of Darwin and Martha Wittekiend McKellips who came to Butler County by covered wagon in 1871. According to family, they lived in a sod house for a while and survived the disasters of grasshoppers and prairie fires.
