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Cranford Rare is, first, a scholarly archive — a working repository of printed, written, and visual artifacts catalogued with the care of a finding aid. The objects we hold also pass, occasionally and discreetly, into private hands.

Issue Nº V · Spring MMXXVI
From the Archive
Four series
  1. I.

    Yellowstone Stereoviews

    Solomon D. Butcher · 1904 – 1909 · 13 pcs

    Real photo postcard stereoviews — a reconstructed itinerary of the 1909 Butcher circuit through the park.

  2. II.

    Among the Sky-Scrapers

    C. E. Yocam · c. 1908 – 1912 · 4 pcs

    Real photo postcards from a small-town Nebraska studio — a quiet joke about what counts as a sky-scraper on the prairie.

  3. III.

    Early Omaha

    Various photographers · 1860s – early 1900s

    Stereoviews and early prints of the river city — pinned to a living 1868 bird's-eye and 1887 plat atlas of downtown Omaha.

  4. IV.

    Nebraska Native Man

    Various photographers · 1860s – early 1900s · 11 pcs

    Portraits and reservation views from Nebraska and the Northern Plains — pinned to an 1886 Burlington Route map of the state.

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Nº V
Stearns CDV
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Prairie Gathering — Sioux or Omaha Encampment

O. A. Stearns, Photographer · Columbus, Nebraska · circa 1870s · Carte-de-visite
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