Gather around the Christmas tree for this holiday #ThrowbackThursday!
Merry Christmas! This week’s highlight is a black and white photograph on a postcard of a decorated Christmas tree taken around 1907-1917 by John Nelson. The tree has two doll carriages and a toy car under it and is in a living room with a carpet, electric lamps hanging from the ceiling and is standing in front of a window with closed curtains.
This image is owned and published by the Nebraska State Historical Society. They digitized content from the John Nelson and the J. A. Anderson collection. John Nelson came to Nebraska with his parents at the age of seventeen from Sweden. His photographs tell the story of small town life in Nebraska during the first decades of the twentieth century. John A. Anderson was born in Sweden in 1869. He came to Nebraska with his parents and settled in Cherry County. He worked as a civilian photographer for the army at Fort Niobrara (Nebraska) and later worked as a clerk at the Rosebud Reservation (South Dakota) trading post.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
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