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It’s a #ThrowbackThursday postcard!

This black-and-white photographic postcard shows a 108 ft. long cement bridge structure over a water way, Tri-State Canal near Morrill, Nebraska. The Tri-State Canal diverts water from the North Platte River close to the Wyoming border for irrigation in western Nebraska. According to The Irrigation Age November 1905, Howard G. Leavitt was the president of the Tri-State Land Company which building the “canal 100 miles long, forty feet wide at bottom, and twelve feet deep.” According to the Nebraska Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics December 1907 Bulletin, the canal was partly financed by “several New York millionaires” to “irrigate between 75,000 and 100,000 acres.” A postmark and one-cent green Benjamin Franklin stamp are on the reverse.

This image is published by the Nebraska Library Commission. The collections include material on the history of libraries in the state of Nebraska, items from the 1930s related to the Nebraska Public Library Commission bookmobile, as well as items showcasing the history of Nebraska’s state institutions.

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