Jessie Byers

Abstract

Jessie Byers is wearing a fashionable dress of the time and her hair was bobbed. The customer card lists her at 1054 Eugene Street in Indianapolis. The city directory for 1926 notes that she worked as a stenographer at the Travelers Insurance Company. She was living with her parents John and Callie Byers. Jessie was about 22 years old when this portrait was taken.This image is a preservation copy made from an unstable original nitrate negative. The image is part of Series III