Pioneer pictures (20) (in pkg w/postcards) |
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"Buffalo Bill" (Col. Wm. F. Cody) |
"The Country School" (by Winslow Homer) |
"Ever Westward Spread the American People…" |
Fireplace scene w/small spinning wheel, bellows and hooked rug. |
"Food Processing…in Grandmother’s Time" |
Inside spring house w/butter churn, cooling butter, & milk cans. |
Pioneer trunk (red trunk dated April 1845) |
Pioneer trunk (trunk in attic, has spiderwebs on it) |
"Speaking of Heat" (drawing) (cylindrical stove w/3 feet, handle) |
Two-wheeled cart used during pioneer times (drawing) |
Set of 3, b&w photos (info on backs) |
Livery Stable and Blacksmith Shop |
"Prairie Schooners, Westward Bound" |
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Set of 7 b&w photos and prints (mounted on foamboard) |
Brush Arbor School – Live Oak County Texas (1887) / info on back |
Circa 1824 – Log cabin built by Isaac Funk |
Commercial flyer advertising prairie lands for sale (1875) |
Most probably Dodge City Kansas (1879) / info on back |
Two row corn planter (1960) (b&w drawing) |
Typical interior of sod house (soddy) on the Plains / info on back |
Woman sewing clothes – Plains / info on back |
Pioneer postcards (6) (b&w photos) (in pkg w/20 pics) (laminated, 2 mounted) |
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"Mormon Settlers in Arizona" |
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"Western Pioneer Homestead" |
Pioneer pictures (29) (in 1 pkg) |
Set of 17 b&w pictures (mounted on tagboard) |
A dugout carved into a prairie knoll… |
A Nebraska couple’s cornfield covers every arable inch of land… |
A prairie family’s treasures include caged songbirds… |
A westering woman, pausing for a meal with her husband… |
As settlers surged west, towns popped up like toadstools. Within… |
Between 1841 and 1869, seking a fresh start, some 350,000 Americans… |
Decked out in a stylish hat, a prim teacher named Blance la Mont… |
Defying the chill of a prairie winter, hardy immigrants from Europe… |
Floating their wagons on improvised ferries and swimming their horses… |
Former slaves – "very highly respected citizens, " |
Frontier life was merciless. (women wading in wide creek) |
Reflecting the strain of their journey, westbound pioneers pause… |
Spurred on by huge federal gifts of free land, railroad builders… |
Teams of oxen stand ready to resume the trail. Relatively few… |
The weather on the plains was brutal - 115 degrees in summer, -40… |
Three generations of a homesteading family overflow their Oklahoma… |
Western children in a mountain rimmed playground… |
Set of 5 b&w photos (mounted on foamboard, laminated) |
Early homesteader gathers buffalo chips for fuel in Kansas. / info on back |
Nebraska prairie sod peeled off in rows. / info on back |
Sod house –"soddy"- with wood facing. / info on back |
Sod school with hipped roof – Custer County, Nebraska / info on back |
Washday in the Plains / info on back |
Set of 7 (6 color photos, 1 color drawing) (laminated, mounted on cardboard) |
Coal-burning cooking stove used during pioneer times (drawing) |
General store w/potbellied stove, candies, cookies, housewares, etc. |
Homemade Soap (recipe on back) |
"The Old Churn" poem by Edna Hamilton (on green background) |
Old water pump w/bucket, ladle and cup (note old wagon wheel !) |
Wood stove in use w/graniteware pots and pans (w/cooked food in them) |
Wood stove in use w/graniteware pots and pans (baking bread) |
"Typical General Store - Kansas" (large sepia photo encapsulated in plastic) |
