Throw on your sunhat this #ThrowbackThursday!
This week’s highlight is a 4″x6″ glass plate negative, portrait photograph of Floy Harriet Boston, taken in 1909 in David City, Nebraska. She is wearing a white dress with gathered skirt, elbow-length sleeves and stand collar, and a white hat with white ribbon surrounding the crown and hanging down the back. She is sitting in silhouette on a bench with a carved back, holding up a stuffed teddy bear. Floy was the daughter of Margaret Patterson and Harvey L. Boston, founder of the Boston Studio in David City, Nebraska. In 1925, she married Aubrey C. Hurlbert. A.C. retired from teaching in 1945 and the Hurlberts moved back to David City where A.C. “Prof” operated the Boston Studio until it was sold to Fred and John McVay in 1973. Floy passed away in 1977.
This image is published as part of the Boston Studio Project collection, and is owned by both them and the Thorpe Opera House Foundation. The Boston Studio Collection consists of over 68,000 negatives that record life in and around David City, Nebraska from 1893 to 1979.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
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