Nebraska GenWeb Project

 

NEBRASKA PHOTO ALBUM

Image 

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

PEOPLE - Portraits, pioneers, Native Americans

Publications - Indexes to Illustrations (some are lists rather than indexes)
Nebraska Pioneers - some bios include photos
NE Civil War Biography pages - some bios include photos
William F. CODY "Buffalo Bill"
 
1.
"Buffalo Bill" W.F. Cody
 
2.
Buffalo Bill (alternate)
 
3.
Bronco Bill & John Hancock "Cowboy interpretors for the Sioux and Pawnee Indians"

 

PLACES - Courthouses, historical buildings & locations, entrances to cemeteries
     
Monuments & Road Markers: Fort McPherson cemetery (Maxwell, NE), Fort Kearny, etc.

NE Parks & Games Commission
Nebraska Trail photos from Oregon-California Trails Association

Photos listed by Nebraska State Historical Society

Photos from National Records & Administration (NARA) - NAIL search
     
American West Photographs

"Oldtime Nebraska" Look Here list of old Nebraska photos (website by Dick Taylor formerly known as Nebraska Heritage Village)

 
STATE at LARGE

Photo Tour of NE State Capitol, Lincoln
(NE State Capitol website)

Photos of the NE State Capitol Bldg, Lincoln
(American Memory of the Library of Congress)

Nebraska Through the Eyes of Astronauts
website by Bradley Rundquist
NE Historic Bridges
(US Dept of Transportation, Federal Hwy Admin.)
Great Platte River Road Archway Monument
from NE Travel and Tourism
Lincoln Highway (construction photos, etc.)
NDOR website
POSTCARDS

Grandmother MARTEN's Postcard Collection from Gary Martens

Postcards of Nebraska - Collection by Fred Greguras

Kaylynn's Postcard Collection

Eugene's Postcards from Grandma (abt 1909)

USGenWeb Penny Postcards from Nebraska by Joy Fisher (organized by county)

Solomon Butcher's Photograph Collection - Nebraska State Historical Society

NE Photographers Index - NEGenWeb Project Resource Center

Ancestor Sharing Center (photos needing homes or ID) - NEGenWeb Project Resource Center

Country School - includes several photos, images of school memorabilia - NEGenWeb Project Resource Center

NE College & University Photos

Tools, equipment  

 

 

On hold for Ancestors Lost & Found!

 

 

Submission guidelines

Explanations and excuses from the coordinators

 

County indexes of photos


NOTE:
Some counties do not have a photo index, yet! For a few, we have made an index. The ampersand (&) indicates an additional photo file that is currently located on this website, but related to that particular county. The double plus (++) means a files located anyplace that has connection to the county. While it may seem "willy-nilly" - we must organize on basis of what we receive from interested viewers, have on hand or hear about. Never know what will turn up in the next mail!

Adams

Frontier

Nance

Antelope

&

Furnas

Nemaha

Arthur

Gage includes the
Isley-Groves Collection
Thanks to C. Brockfield!

Nuckolls

Banner

Garden

Otoe

Blaine

Garfield

Pawnee

Boone

Gosper

Perkins

Box Butte

Grant

Phelps

Boyd

Greeley

Pierce

Brown

Hall

Platte

misc. cemetery photos

Buffalo

Pictorial Kearney, Nebraska

Hamilton

Polk

Burt

Harlan

Red Willow

Butler

 

Hayes

Richardson

Cass - Marie Courie Collection

Hitchcock

Rock

  

Cedar - Glass neg.

Holt

&

Saline

Chase

Hooker

Sarpy

Cherry

Howard

Saunders

Cheyenne

Jefferson

Scotts Bluff

Clay

Johnson

Seward

Colfax - Leigh Cemetery

Kearney

Sheridan

Cuming

Keith

Sherman

Custer

Keya Paha

Sioux

Dakota

Kimball

Stanton

Dawes

Knox

Thayer

&

Dawson

Lancaster

Thomas

Deuel

Lincoln

Thurston

Dixon

Logan

Valley

Dodge

Loup

Washington

&

Douglas

&

Madison

Wayne

Dundy

McPherson

Webster

Fillmore

Merrick

Wheeler

Franklin

Morrill

York

 

NE State Genealogical Society = Tombstone Photo Project
 
Gravestones of Nebraskans buried in other places  (please submit your photos by email )
California  
  Fresno, California - Mountain View Cemetery (all with connection to Platte County, NE)
    Surnames - BEHLEN, DOBERSTEIN, FITTJE, KAMM  
  Riverside County, CA - National (Military) Cemetery  
    Surnames: BELKNAP, FRIEND, KINGDON, MANGUM, SMOTHERS
  Riverside County, CA - Crestlawn Cemetery (near Norco)  
    Surnames: KINGDON, MILLER, SCHUBERT  
  San Bernardino Co., CA - Montecito Cemetery  
    Surnames: GUTZWILLER, PERSON, WILSON /HOLMES  
  San Bernardino, San Bdno., CA - Mountain View Cemetery  
    Surnames: GASSMAN, PERSON  
Colorado  
Idaho  
  Caldwell, Canyon, ID - Canyon Hill Cemetery  
    Surnames: PORTER, SWANSON (others with NE connections not proven)
  Middleton, Canyon, ID - Middleton Cemetery  
    Surnames: MILLER, BROOMHALL, LINDAUER (others with NE connections not proven)

 

 Other photo collections:

Family History Collections from the Past - by Robin Mosier (photos needing homes or ID)

American Civil War Photographs Database

Images of England Project <www.Imagesofengland.org.uk>
for churches, royal palaces, medieval castles, manor houses, red phone booth!
Search engine to find places known from literature. Expected to be complete sometime in 2002.
Gov't financed website; inventory of historical places.

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How-to's, Look-see's

American Museum of Photography Research Center website (history, preservation, etc.) 

American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works

How to Care for Your Photographs

from Nebraska State Historical Society website

Repair of old documents from USGenWeb Project

The Virtual Vintage Image (tips on scanning, cropping, adjusting ...) by WF Lawrence

Digital Cameras and Genealogy by Ken Watson

"Why Label Your Photographs?" by Ancestry Daily News columnist, George G. Morgan

Rootsweb Review Vol. 5, No. 19, 8 May 2002 (see Bottomless Mailbag for tips on using "slides")
Discussion continued in next issue: RootsWeb Review: Vol. 5, No. 20, 15 May 2002

"Color Correction" information is available at Wayne Fulton's website, A Few Scanning Tips


 

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