Description: 01. An Unfortunate Settler. Wife Dead & House Fellin In. Father w/ three children against the sod home that presumably killed their mother. S.D. Butcher & Son // Kearney Nebraska imprint reverse, unused. Light thumb crease bottom left w/ edge and corner wear. Ink splash does not particularly detract. 02. Andy Howland // West Union Nebraska w/ his dog Tige. S.D. Butcher & Son // Kearney Nebraska imprint reverse. Has been postally sent (stamp removed) 1908. Strong contrast w/ corner wear including crease bottom right. Thumb crease top center & cancellation ghost. Examples of Butcher's postcards are rare. Solomon D. Butcher was at once the most prolific documentarian of Land Claim living after the Homestead Acts and himself an unwitting, almost comically doomed participant in the same experiment. He was at times a studio photographer (read his work on back drop / motion manipulation), itinerant wagon photographer, salesman and a more than once failed politician. Through a series of bankruptcies and mishaps he was forced into releasing a sloppy subscription book of his work, never realizing his dream of publishing the expansive (over 3000 images) record of sod house living. Many of his glass plate negatives have now been archived by the Library of Congress.
Price: 600 USD
Location: Irwin, Pennsylvania
End Time: 2024-11-06T21:22:11.000Z
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Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Antique: Yes
Type: Photograph
Image Orientation: Landscape
Number of Photographs: 2
Theme: Americana, Cities & Towns, Community Life, Continents & Countries, History, Portrait, Social History, Western
Time Period Manufactured: 1900-1924
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Americana, History, Portrait, Social History, Western
Vintage: Yes
