There’s Something Special About These 12 Nebraska Farms From The Past
Agriculture has always been a huge part of life in Nebraska, and thanks to the photographic archives on Yale University’s website, we have access to vintage photos of what farm life used to look like here. In many ways, it is recognizable from what you see today (a cow is always, invariably, a cow), but things have definitely progressed a bit. Check out these amazing old photos of farm life in Nebraska.
1. Imagine the long walk up the dusty, windy road to this ranch in Dawson County. Marion Post Wolcott captured this photograph in 1941.
2. A charming farm sits among its expansive fields in Douglas County, 1936.
3. Photographer Arthur Rothsstein captured this shot in Box Butte County in 1936.
4. Cows are herded into a barn for milking.
5. A farmer milks the cows, 46 in total; this dairy farm was located at a co-op in Waterloo.
6. Sod houses stand in Alliance, 1936.
7. A silo and grain storage in Waterloo, 1941.
8. This farmhouse in Scotts Bluff County was abandoned long before this photograph was taken.
9. This farmhouse stood in Sheridan County, in the northwest part of Nebraska.
10. Pigs at a farm in Waterloo.
11. Here are some really old-school poultry houses at a farm in Waterloo.
12. The barn and feeding pens at Tom Reed farm in Lexington form an antiquated landscape.
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