{"id":199,"date":"2014-09-01T11:53:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T16:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/farnam\/?p=199"},"modified":"2014-09-01T11:58:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T16:58:10","slug":"199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/farnam\/2014\/09\/01\/199\/","title":{"rendered":"Planes, Trains, and Automobiles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted on<\/span>\u00a0August 29, 2014<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by<\/span>\u00a0Mary Sauers<\/strong>
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\"memories.ne.gov\"<\/a>One of the fun things I like to do while browsing through\u00a0Nebraska Memories<\/a>\u00a0is to find pictures that remind me of a phrase or movie title, then add a Nebraska twist.\u00a0 That led me to today\u2019s post about Nebraska photographer John Nelson, and the movie \u201cPlanes, Trains, and Automobiles.\u201d<\/p>\n

John Nelson was born in Halestad, Sweden in 1864.\u00a0 He came to Nebraska with his parents at the age of seventeen.\u00a0 His many photographs tell the story of small town life in Nebraska during the first decades of the 20th century.\u00a0 His subjects included people, towns, businesses, community activities, early airplanes, trains, and automobiles.<\/p>\n

The picture to the left is of the photographer himself, standing in front of the rear end of his motorized portable darkroom, between 1907 and 1917.<\/p>\n

The pictures immediately below are the first stop in the planes, trains, and automobiles tour.\u00a0 They are of a biplane with its\u2019 pilot, two Native Americans and a woman, and then a crowd of onlookers at the site of an airplane crash, respectively, about the same time period.\u00a0 These are just two of several airplane photographs taken by John Nelson found in\u00a0Nebraska Memories<\/a>, and illustrate the variety of pictures he took.<\/p>\n

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Trains are our next stop in the planes, trains and automobiles tour.\u00a0 Mr. Nelson took photographs of the trains themselves, but also took photographs of the people and places associated with the railroads.\u00a0 This can be seen in the pictures below of the \u201c219 on Wednesdays\u201d coming into a small Nebraska town, and in the picture of a couple standing outside the Ericson, Nebraska train depot.<\/p>\n

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Then last on the tour, but certainly not least, are the pictures of automobiles.\u00a0 John Nelson took many pictures of cars: everything from cars in downtown Omaha to individuals in or beside their cars, and from the F.J. O\u2019Hara Buick Dealership in Spalding, Nebraska to automobiles decorated for parades, as seen below.<\/p>\n

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I hope you\u2019ve enjoyed our photographic tour of John Nelson\u2019s planes, trains, and automobiles.\u00a0 Visit\u00a0Nebraska Memories<\/a>\u00a0to search for or browse through many more historical images digitized from photographs, negatives, postcards, maps, lantern slides, books and other materials.<\/p>\n

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