Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Beierle with wedding attendants
Description
A 5"x7" glass plate negative, full figure wedding portrait of Thomas and Josephine Beierle and wedding attendants, Bellwood, Nebraska. Thomas is wearing a mustache, dark suit, white shirt with wing collar, white bow tie and a boutonniere on his lapel, seated on a wooden chair. Josephine is wearing an ankle-length dark dress with black velvet bodice outlined with light-colored braid trim, braid outlining the long-sleeves at the wrist and a satin belt with metal buckle, seated on a wicker bench. The attendants are standing behind them. The woman is dressed in a dark, belted, long-sleeve dress with a tight-fitting bodice and black half-shirt with stand collar. The man is wearing a three-piece suit, white shirt with wing collar and white bow tie with a white handkerchief in his breast pocket. They are in front of a painted backdrop of an open casement window with fringed draperies pulled to one side.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00035730000
Source
Original format: 5"x7" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Thomas M. Beierle was born in a hillside dugout on the farm his parents homesteaded southwest of David City in 1877. He married Josephine Bock in 1901. Josephine was born in 1882 in Savannah, Nebraska, which at that time was the county seat of Butler County. Thomas and Josephine lived on a 400-acre farm, 7.5 miles southwest of David City for 45-years and raised 5 daughters before retiring to David City in 1945. Josephine died November 1, 1963 and Thomas died in 1965. They are both buried in the David City Cemetery.
