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Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska\u27s Pioneer Days
Full text linkReview of: Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska\u27s Pioneer Days, by Nancy Plain
Solomon D. Butcher: Photographing the American Dream.
Full text linkJohn E. Carter has collected Solomon D. Butcher\u27s photographs of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century rural and small town Nebraska life in the most sharply detailed reproductions and the most generous format yet available. Cataloging the physical and social environment of farm families and ranchers, objects of work and leisure, the construction of prairie sod houses, the arrival of technology and urbane civilization on the frontier, Butcher\u27s work provides an irreplaceable record of the establishment of white culture on the Plains
Solomon D. Butcher in front of his dugout
No full textPhotographer's note: My first house in Nebraska, 1880. Built from "Nebraska brick"
D.O. Luce Canyon, Anselmo, Custer County, Nebraska.
No full textPhotographer's note: 'Man who was killed by a detective near O'Neill as horse thief.' Butcher's wife, Lillian Barber Hamilton Butcher, appear in the wagon to the far left with her two children, Lynn and Madge. S. D. Butcher was trying to locate underground stables, said to be used by horse thieves
D.O. Luce Canyon, Anselmo, Custer County, Nebraska.
No full textPhotographer's note: 'Man who was killed by a detective near O'Neill as horse thief.' S. D. Butcher was trying to locate underground stables in the canyon that were said to be used by horse thieves. Butcher and his wife, Lillian, appear in the he foreground
Portrait of Solomon D. Butcher, his wife Laura Brachear Nation Butcher, his son Lynn, and a child presumed to by Lynn's son, Melvin.
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