A 3"x4" glass plate negative, bust portrait photograph of Joseph and Florence Makovicka, Bellwood, Nebraska. Joseph is wearing a mustache, dark three-piece suit with watch chain and medallion hanging from the vest buttonhole, white shirt with stiff wing collar and dark knotted tie. Florence is wearing a long-sleeve dress with fitted bodice, belted waist, square-neck bodice insert outlined with two rows of darker ribbon and stiff, high-stand collar, a black bow in her hair.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00042690001
Source
Original format: 3"x4" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Joseph F. Makovicka was born in Austria, March 25, 1868. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1893 and settled by Bellwood, in Butler County, Nebraska. On July 1, 1902, he married Florence Veronica Lajba of Abie. They had three sons and two daughters. Florence died July 5, 1922.
