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Midway Hotel & Monument
A post card with the historic Midway Hotel and Kearney, Nebraska's Soldiers' Monument. The Midway Hotel depicted on this postcard was once the pride of Kearney. It was quite possibly the most ornate building in the town before it burned down and was…
Midway Hotel Postcard
Blank postcard with an image of the old Midway Hotel that used be located near downtown Kearney, Nebraska.
Morning after Kearney's First Cyclone
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Postcard with black and white photograph of the damage left by a tornado that went through Kearney, Nebraska on June 6, 1908.
Nebraska Potatoes Postcard
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Humorous postcard meant to illustrate how fertile Nebraska's farmland was. Photograph has been altered by Solomon D. Butcher in order to make the potatoes in the cart look gigantic.
Opera House Postcard
Unused colored postcard of the old Kearney, Nebraska Opera House.
Platte River Bridge Postcard
Black and white postcard of the mile-long Platte River bridge near Kearney, Nebraska. There is a man on a horse on the bridge. Photograph taken by Solomon D. Butcher. It is addressed to Mrs. P.A. Graham of Buchtel, Ohio.
Postcard "A Millionaire in Disguise"
Black and white postcard, photograph taken by Solomon D. Butcher of S. D. Butcher & Son Photography Studio. It shows an older man sitting in front of a farm house with a bunch of farming equipment and miscellaneous objects. It is addressed to Mrs.…
Postcard to Benjamin Franklin Thomas
The image on the postcard shows a horse in the lower left hand corner.
Benjamin Franklin Thomas worked as an elephant tamer for the Van Amburgh Circus in the mid nineteenth-century.
Benjamin Franklin Thomas worked as an elephant tamer for the Van Amburgh Circus in the mid nineteenth-century.
Presbyterian Church Postcard
Colored postcard showing the old Presbyterian Church in Kearney, Nebraska.
Robert Harrison Fleming
A photograph on a postcard of Robert Harrison Fleming in a hat and suit circa 1911.