Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
Spring 2011
Citation
Great Plains Quarterly 31:2 (Spring 2011).
Abstract
One of the salient features of Great Plains Quarterly is its inclusion of an extensive array of illustrations, maps, and photographs along with most articles. These images are meant to enhance their essays and enrich the reader's understanding of their contexts. Occasionally, pictures say so much that one wishes for more photographs and less text. That's not a weakness of Historic Photos of Nebraska, which contains 192 photographs in its 216 pages.
This is Turner Publishing's second book focused on the region's photographs; the first was Jeffrey Spencer's Historic Photos of Omaha (2007). Using images selected from the Boys Town Hall of History, the Denver Public Library, the Library of Congress, the Nebraska State Historical Society, and photos from the collections of Frederick Bandholtz and Solomon D. Butcher, Ted Stryker presents a broad panorama of the visual history of Nebraska from the 1850s to the 1970s: Standing Bear and Buffalo Bill; Kosher butchers and Irish farmers; Willa Cather and Johnny Carson; sod houses and main streets; politicians and tornadoes.
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