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Harvey M. Pickens

Harvey M. Pickens, Ortello Valley, Custer County, Nebraska, 1889 Solomon D. Butcher, photographer [RG2608.PH-1523.] Surprise! Adjusting the light and dark levels, ...

Overton Grocery Store

Grocery store in Overton, Dawson County, Nebraska, 1904 Solomon D. Butcher, photographer [RG2608.PH2556] Using imaging technology, we are able to look through the ...

Chrisman Sisters, Women Homesteaders

The Chrisman sisters near Goheen settlement on Lieban Creek, Custer County, Nebraska, 1886 Solomon D. Butcher, photographer [RG2608.PH-1053] Solomon D. Butcher's ...

Grand Pa Dailey

"Grand Pa" Dailey, possibly in Milburn, Nebraska, 1886 or 1887 Solomon D. Butcher, photographer [RG2608.PH-1036] The information shown in this close-up is clearly ...

Frank Moore homestead

Frank Moore, Sargent, north Custer County, Nebraska, 1887 Solomon D. Butcher, photographer [RG2608.PH-1244] Look closely. How many people do you ...

Anton Smock farm

Anton Smock and his farm near Oconto, Custer County, Nebraska, 1904 Solomon D. Butcher, photographer [RG2608.PH-1764] This glass plate negative is 6 inches tall by 8 ...

Robert Merchant Collection

  Robert Merchant writes for an U.S. Army magazine in 1943. [RG5841.PH1-13]   A Nebraskan Aerial Photographer's Experience in the Pacific During ...

Camp Life

  Robert Merchant Collection: A Nebraska Aerial Photographer's Experience in the Pacific during WWII  Robert Merchant spent most of his service time stationed in ...

New Guinea Rescue Mission

  Robert Merchant Collection: A Nebraska Aerial Photographer's Experience in the Pacific during WWII Wartime photographers went everywhere. In 1943 Merchant ...

New Guinea Aerial Assault

  Robert Merchant Collection: A Nebraska Aerial Photographer's Experience in the Pacific during WWII Robert Merchant spent part of his time in service stationed ...

Wrecked Japanese Planes

  Robert Merchant Collection: A Nebraska Aerial Photographer's Experience in the Pacific during WWII Merchant also captured the aftermath of battles, such as the ...

French Gratitude Train Collection

  Merci Train: A Selection of Objects from the Nebraska Boxcar World War II brought devastation to France. In 1947 Washington, D.C., columnist Drew Pearson ...

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