A 4"x6" glass plate negative, bust portrait photograph of the Frank Stoddard family, Rising City, Nebraska. Frank is wearing a mustache and beard, dark three-piece suit and white shirt. Bella is wearing a black long-sleeve dress with bodice insert and stiff, high-stand collar of white fabric topped with black lace, edged with a narrow black fabric ruffle, a black ribbon bow on the right side of the bodice. Amy is sitting between them wearing a dark, long-sleeve dress with pointed over collar of the same fabric outlined with three rows of beads, short stand collar and a heart pendant on a short chain around her neck.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00036150000
Source
Original format: 4"x6" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
In 1882, Mrs. Curtis Stoddard came to Butler County from Steuben County, Indiana, with her two sons, Jay and Frank Stoddard. They purchased land near Rising City and Frank returned to Indiana, bringing back his new wife, Bella. Frank and Bella had a daughter, Amy. Frank died in 1904 and is buried near Rising City. In 1906, Bella and Amy returned to Indiana to be near Bella's family.
