A 4"x5" glass plate negative, portrait photograph of Ida Jacob and two unknown women, David City, Nebraska. Ida is wearing wire-rimmed glasses, floor-length skirt, white blouse, a dark scarf tied in a bow at the neck, dark long-sleeve coat and hat with a wide brimmed turned up on both sides, decorated with pheasant feathers. An unknown woman is wearing a black floor-length skirt and black coat with high-stand collar and large, black pill box hat with a brooch at one side. The other unknown woman is wearing an ankle-length and short jacket with flap pockets and cape extension over the long sleeves and straw hat decorated with white ribbon standing in the front yard with cedar and leafless trees in front of a clapboard house with wide front porch with gingerbread railing and dormer window projecting from the second floor.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
BSN05410000
Source
Original format: 4"x5" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Ida Jacob was born in Bellwood, Nebraska, August 1883, the daughter of Carl and Frances Zimmer Jacob. Ida married Anton Hayek, September 6, 1910, in Romerstadt, Austria. In 1911, Anton and Ida returned to Bellwood and opened a restaurant. They later moved to Omaha and then to California, where Anton died. Ida returned to David City where she died April 17, 1985.
