This #ThrowbackThursday lights up the night!
This week’s highlight is a 5″ x 3-1/4″ black and white postcard showing the Kearney Nebraska State Normal School administration building at night with lights on inside and out. This is a “time exposure” taken around 1915. Three bright stars are recorded as slashes, indicating how far in the sky they had moved while the shutter was open and the film was being exposed.
This image is published and owned by the University of Nebraska at Kearney, Archives, Calvin T. Ryan Library. UNK was founded in 1905 as the Nebraska State Normal School at Kearney, became Nebraska State Teachers College in 1921, was renamed Kearney State College in 1963, and joined the Nebraska University system in 1991. The collection shows faculty, students, buildings and activities from the first dozen years of the school’s existence.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
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