We’re going round and around this #ThrowbackThursday!
This week’s highlight is a black and white photograph dated around 1907-1917 on a postcard of a horse pulled merry-go-round with people sitting on it. The merry-go-round is a round flat wooden surface with secured benches for people to sit on. A horse in the center pulls the ride into motion. More people are standing around the ride.
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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