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Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, 1995. Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 129 pages.

Country Beautiful Foundation, Elm Grove, Wisconsin, 1964. Hard Cover. Condition:of inside very good. No Jacket. Condition of book binding good. Purplish brown pebbled leather effect hard cover. Large pastedown photo of JFK in the centre and gold gilt lettering for title. Gold gilt lettering along spine, also. 98pp, all in clean condition. Many photographs, both black and white and colour. Front Board loose, Edges of spine are abraded. Two Bumped corners

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1994., 1994. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. pp. 333. 303 b/w & 8 colour illus. cloth. black with silver. First Edition.

Barnes & Noble Books, New York, 1998. Hardcover. Condition: as new. Dust Jacket Condition: VeryGood. A photographic essay focusing on family life in the old west. Hundreds of b&w photos. Chapter titles include Beyond the Frontier, With Hope in Their Hearts, A Promised Land, O Pioneers!, and Our Town. 112 pages, index.

University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 1985. Hard Back. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition:as new 139 Pages. As new book with flawless interior text and photograph pages. Dust jacket price 28.95 is NOT clipped. For millions of Americans, Solomon D. Butcher's photographs epitomize the sod-house frontier. His late-nineteenth-century images from western Nebraska constitute the most extensive photographic record in existence of the generation that settled the Great Plains. The faces are unforgettable: jaunty bachelors and earnest husbands, Civil War veterans of both armies, spinster sod busters and determined mothers, cowhands, farmhands, and former slaves. All in search of land of their own. Originally published in 1985, this first book devoted to Butcher and his photographs presents a unique visual chronicle of Great Plains settlement and established Butcher's place in frontier photography. Everyone interested in the plains pioneers or historical American photography will prize this… Leer más

University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 1985. Hard Back. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition:as new 139 Pages. As new book with flawless interior text and photograph pages. Dust jacket price 28.95 is NOT clipped. For millions of Americans, Solomon D. Butcher's photographs epitomize the sod-house frontier. His late-nineteenth-century images from western Nebraska constitute the most extensive photographic record in existence of the generation that settled the Great Plains. The faces are unforgettable: jaunty bachelors and earnest husbands, Civil War veterans of both armies, spinster sod busters and determined mothers, cowhands, farmhands, and former slaves. All in search of land of their own. Originally published in 1985, this first book devoted to Butcher and his photographs presents a unique visual chronicle of Great Plains settlement and established Butcher's place in frontier photography. Everyone interested in the plains pioneers or historical American photography will prize this… Leer más

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. First Edition. 189 duotone plates. In the spirit of Dorothea Lange and Russell Lee before him, Bill Ganzel set out on a quest to photograph the aftermath of the Dust Bowl more than 30 years later. fine plus in a fine dust jacket. .

Against a stark horizon in a harsh climate, settlers in Nebraska everywhere erected monuments to their optimism. The buildings pictured in Dreams in Dry Places are not just famous landmarks like the State Capitol but also humble farmhouses, barns, grain elevators, courthouses, banks, churches, stores, and theaters. They represent every kind of architecture to be found in Nebraska--folk, high-style, commercial, residential, pioneer, and modern; the unexpected and the familiar, the poetic and the prosaic, good and bad. Caught by Roger Bruhn's camera, these structures always suggest the spiritual resources of their builders and inhabitants, who struggled for a livelihood on the Great Plains.Dreams in Dry Places has an architecture of its own, beginning and ending with images of the natural landscape and in between revealing unexpected continuities among disparate structures and settings, juxtapositions of forms, and the vanities and vagaries of architectural style. Exterior and interior shots are… Leer más

New York: Bonanza Books., 1982. Condition:near fine 334 pages. Hard Covers. red cloth with black on binding with gilt lettering on spine. Dust Jacket Good. Some wear to DJ with 1/2 inch tear on top near spine, Pages fine. B&W plates throughout. ISBN 10: 0517002590 ISBN 13: 9780517002599. one corner bumped

Book includes 109 pages and 110 photos that were exhibited at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in March 1977.The authors traveled throughout NE from 1975-1977 documenting the life, landscape and architecture of the State. They sought everyday people from one end of the social scale to the other, who were usually not pictured in daily newspaper or on television .