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Coburg, Nebraska Terr. & vic., 1884-85 – Antique Wall Art

Coburg, Nebraska Terr. & vic., 1884-85, [1884 or 1885] — historic photograph
Coburg, Nebraska Terr. & vic., 1884-85, [1884 or 1885]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This historic photograph of Coburg, Nebraska Terr. & vic., 1884-85 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Coburg, Nebraska Terr. & vic., 1884-85

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Families posed before a sod building and a windmill in this view of Coburg, Nebraska, a detail that sets it apart from the broader prairie scenes on the board. The photograph, dated 1884 or 1885, comes from the years when homesteaders were turning open grassland into farms, often building their first homes from blocks of sod cut from the earth itself. Windmills like the one shown pumped water for households and livestock on land where wells were costly to dig and streams were scarce. Its albumen print process was common in the 1880s, and the number inscribed on the negative hints at how the Library's collection was organized.

Created / published[1884 or 1885]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenrePortrait photographs 1880-1890.Group portraits 1880-1890.Albumen prints 1880-1890.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. 64 inscribed on negative lower right.
SubjectsFamilies--Nebraska--1880-1890. Sod buildings--Nebraska--1880-1890. Homesteading--Nebraska--1880-1890. Frontier & pioneer life--Nebraska--1880-1890. Windmills--Nebraska--1880-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,160 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-114110

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