A 4"x6" glass plate negative, full-figure portrait photograph of Queene Snow, David City, Nebraska. Her blond hair is pulled back from her face and she is dressed in a long-sleeved, high-collared, lace-trimmed, floor-length white dress; standing with her hands resting on the handle of a dark, ribbon-trimmed parasol. The painted backdrop features an open casement window, heavy draperies, moldings, and flower-filled urn.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00032760001
Source
Original format: 4"x6" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Queene Hortense Snow was born in Nebraska, October 31, 1882, to Frank & Hortense Cassatt Snow. Her father worked in a hardware store and later became a railroad agent in David City, Nebraska. Queene was a talented musician and began teaching music at an early age. She performed often at the Thorpe Opera House. She married Henry Givens Cox who was also musically talented and an early conductor of the Omaha Symphony. Queene died May 1963, in Iowa. She and her husband endowed the Cox-Snow Music Center (a 200-seat recital hall, rehearsal hall & classrooms) at Central College in Pella, Iowa. Queene also funded a permanent scholarship in David City, Nebraska. at David City High School.
