Names: | Other: S.D. Butcher Other: Solomon Butcher
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| Dates: | 1856, 24 March - 1927, 18 March | Born: | US, WV, Burton | Died: | US, CO, Greeley | Active: | US | An itinerant photographer of pioneer days in Nebraska. The Butcher collection at the Nebraska State Historical Society consists of nearly 3,500 negatives.
Stereographs project Business locations Kearney, NE, US Jefferson, NE, US Custer County, NE, US [8-1] *[Solomon D. Butcher] "Traveling Photographer", 82-00; produced scarce stereos of NE; sod houses, settlers, churches, schools,
livestock, etc.; rare [1] stereo postcard known,
09, (#D1760) of Hermit Cave, Custer, SD; also
made photos for postcards, cab. views. 82 was
farmer, doing photog. on the side; 86 traveled
in a wagon taking his photos.; was also a
historian; 99 lost most of his prints in a house
fire; B. 56, D. 27. Listed in Jefferson 84-85
and Kearney 07; active 82-17. SEE John I.
White, "Pages from a Nebraska Album," The
American West 12 (1975); Harry E. Chrisman, "The
Sod House Photographs," The West 9(1968):31.
Imprint also seen as "& Son". T.K. Treadwell & William C. Darrah (Compiled by), Wolfgang, Sell (Updated by), 11/28/2003, Photographers of the United States of America, (National Stereoscopic Association) |
Credit: National Stereoscopic Association with corrections and additions by Alan Griffiths and others. |
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