The Jacob Walter photograph was taken by Solomon Butcher sometime around 1887. The photograph features Jacob Walter's sod house, corn crib and wooden barn, all of which were built in 1883. The images also include Jacob Walter with his horse and…
The photograph is of Minny Cudmoore and her students. They are outside of the sod school house. Minny Cudmoore was Jacob Walters granddaughter and was Wilma Lorson French's grandmother.
This kerosene lamp was brought in by Ellen Mortensen. Mortensen purchased the lamp at her aunt's estate auction and found out that lamp had been passed down since her family arrived in Howard County, Nebraska, in the 1880s.