Solomon butcher homestead photographs of flowers

In the s, Solomon D. Butcher captured significant images during the Great Plains settlement, and one such iconic photograph features Joseph and Lucy..

Solomon Butcher is the most famous photographer to live and work in Kearney, known nationally for his images of homesteaders and early settlement.

Some collages from using cut outs from Solomon Butcher photographs.

In the s, Solomon D. Butcher captured significant images during the Great Plains settlement, and one such iconic photograph features Joseph and Lucy.

Solomon D. Butcher () was a #photographer who documented life on the #greatplains especially among the #homestead of Custer County.

Summary: With this staged photograph S. D. Butcher attempted to illustrate the life of "Dick Milton," Butchers nom du guerre for Nebraska outlaw Doc Middleton.

Solomon Butcher Sod Photos

In — more than 20 years after the Homestead Act was signed — an itinerate photographer in Custer County, Nebraska set out to produce a photographic history of his county. Over the next 15 years, Solomon D.

Butcher produced 1, images, hundreds of stories, and a remarkable record of a remarkable time in the history of Nebraska and the U.S.

When Butcher was 24 years old in , he had homesteaded with his father and younger brother in central Nebraska.

Like many early settlers, they built a dugout, a one-room house out of sod. But Butcher discovered he wasn’t cut out to be a farmer.

Peter Wink family in front of their farmhouse near Kearney, Nebraska.

He went back to Minnesota, studied medicine, and married a nurse from the hospital, but never became a doctor. Instead, he and his wife Lillie came back to Nebraska. He taught school for a time and then fell back on his high school training in photography.

He opened a photographic gallery in northern Custer County, a gallery that was never really profitable.

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