An 8"x10" glass plate negative, portrait photograph of John Crow, David City, Nebraska. He is wearing a dark, 3-piece suit, white shirt, knotted tie with tie tack, a white handkerchief in his breast pocket and a watch chain with medallion visible on his vest. He is seated with legs crossed in a one-arm, wooden chair.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00F00090000
Source
Original format: 8"x10" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
John Smith Crow was born in Paris, Missouri, February 25, 1891, to Enos Kerr and Minnie Arnold Crow. He moved to David City, Nebraska, with his parents some time before the 1920 Census, which lists him as living with his parents, working as a bookkeeper in a bank. John moved to California and married Edna Wano Gleed, December 16, 1922, in San Bernadino. According to the 1930 Census, John and Edna were living in Long Beach, California, where John was working as a bank cashier. John died December, 1963, in Long Beach.
