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Coburgh P.O. – Historic Print

Coburgh P.O., [ca. 1889] — historic photograph
Coburgh P.O., [ca. 1889]. 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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Catalogued as "Coburgh P.O.," this group portrait places a family at a small rural post office in Custer County, Nebraska, where sod buildings and a windmill are part of the record. Settlers who arrived on the treeless plains in the 1880s often cut blocks of sod for walls because timber was scarce, and windmills pumped water for households and livestock. Rural post offices were frequently housed in a homesteader's home or a general store, which made them gathering places for mail and news. The albumen print's soft tones and formal pose reflect the portrait conventions of the late 1880s, when photographers were increasingly documenting western settlement.

Created / published[ca. 1889]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenrePortrait photographs 1880-1900.Group portraits 1880-1900.Albumen prints 1880-1900.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. 355 inscribed on negative lower right.
SubjectsFamilies--Nebraska--Custer County--1880-1900. Sod buildings--Nebraska--Custer County--1880-1900. Windmills--Nebraska--Custer County--1880-1900. Homesteading--Nebraska--Custer County--1880-1900. Frontier & pioneer life--Nebraska--Custer County--1880-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,059 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-111220

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