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Title
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Dundy, Hitchcock, Redwillow, Furnas Counties, 1912
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Date
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1912
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Sandhills Narratives
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Identifier
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321301-191
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Transcription
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12 irrigation has not been resorted to, and the ditches lie idle and empty. The evening was enliveded by a chance meeting with a young commercial photographer, who had “done” a large portion of the west, all along the coast and across lots, and he had many interesting things to tell about places and people and predicaments. He had an appreciation of the variability of human nature, and quite evidently a sense of humor which enabled him to get the most out of what without it in many instances would have been hopeless situations. My work in photography has been along lines so different from his that I was able to give him some notions which were new, and I myself profited distinctly by some of his suggestions. On Monday morning, the 19th, Dr. Premer took me eight miles north, which gave me a look at another but not remarkably different area. A “blow-out” of a dozen acres was passed, at a point five miles north of town, and I took photographs. The roads were generally very good, but in the occasional sandy stretches his car seemed to acquit itself very well. We returned to town at ten o’clock in the morning, after which I took another turn of a few miles south, to pass the time until the east bound train arrived in the late afternoon. My luggage, it had been borne in upon me, was altogether too heavy. I had carried 32 pounds for 36 miles, during the first 24 hours of my trip. But since I had now seen and photographed the region I had mainly come to visit, I concluded to ship my plate camera ahead, depending on
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Rights
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