This pieced together broken negative is probably a family of Volga Germans (Germans from Russia) who lived in the same neighborhood (the South Bottoms also known as Russian Bottoms) as photographer John Johnson.
Photographs taken on black and white glass negatives by African American photographer(s) John Johnson and Earl McWilliams from 1910 to 1925 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Douglas Keister has 280 5x7 glass negatives taken by these photographers. Larger scans available on request.