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- Wedding Portrait of Bertha and Charles Kuss of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 1889 - Charles Kuss and Bertha Thelenius posed for a local photographer after their October 1889 wedding in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Bertha, the daughter of prosperous German immigrants, wore a gray silk surah dress with appliqued cut steel beading. Many 19th century brides did not wear a "traditional" white wedding dress. Often, they wore their best dress--which continued as their "best" as they settled into married life.
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Wedding Portrait of Bertha and Charles Kuss of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 1889
Charles Kuss and Bertha Thelenius posed for a local photographer after their October 1889 wedding in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Bertha, the daughter of prosperous German immigrants, wore a gray silk surah dress with appliqued cut steel beading. Many 19th century brides did not wear a "traditional" white wedding dress. Often, they wore their best dress--which continued as their "best" as they settled into married life.