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RG3139 Blizzards

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“Miss Marie Goranson took this photo from the roof of the corncrib (shingles show in foreground). The hole dug in the drift is several feet above the ground and leads to the window of another building where coal is stored. Mr. Goranson is standing on the top of a brooder house. Only a pipe reamins above the snow.”, Folder Number 017

“Blizzard of 1949. Gov. Val Peterson.” Pictures Gov. and pilot in a cockpit of a plane., Folder Number 096

Automobile on snowy road, with large snow drifts on each side

1928/12/15

“Our cattle taken on Wed. after they had been trapped in a small gulch since Sun. Was snowing and blowing very hard when this was taken.” Herd of cows in front of a building and windmill., Folder Number 035

“Jenny and Larraine Greenwood playing in a snowdrift.”, Folder Number 026

“Front view of our house after the first snowstorm. 1949 Mrs Harold Wagner, Cushing, Ne.” House covered in snowdrift with a girl on the snowdrift., Folder Number 8

Men looking at cattle killed during a blizzard

1913/03/17

“Sleigh in picture was used by Baltz Fuelberth pioneer of Pierce Co. Neb. Then was remodeled this winter by Alton Fuelberth grandson of the late Baltz Fuelberth and used agin after 50 some years to haul cream and eggs to Osmond, Neb. And bring back groceries and mail (1949 Blizzard Pierce Co.).” Pictures four people in a sleigh with two horses pulling and a dog along side., Folder Number 059

Building surrounded by snow drifts on the Albert Miller farm, Blizzard of 1949

1948/11/25

Automobile surrounded by snowdifts in residential neighborhood, Blizzard of 1949

1949 circa

“Merna, Jan. 6, 1949. Custer County Chief, Broken Bow.” Pictures a city street in snow., Folder Number 074

“Snow on Dunning Brewster Road. Custer County Chief, Broken Bow.” Pictures man standing in front of snowdrift and by truck.

“Danekas Ranch Thereford. Custer County , Broken Bow, Ne. Blizzard of 1949.” Pictures two windmills in snowdrifts., Folder Number 068

“Digging a polled hereford cow out of a 15 ft. snow bank.” Man holding horse in front a snow drift., Folder Number 034

Herman Boerger house nearly buried, Rock Co., NE. January 30, 1949

Image of large snowfall on the railroad tracks.

“Truck was buried behind these drifts, which Mr. Brown and I shoveled thru. Drifts were 10 feet deep, 30 feet wide. Walter V. Brown, Oshkosh, Ne.”, Folder Number 051

Huge snow drift., Folder Number 4

Survivors of the Blizzard of 1888, standing outside of the Prairie Flower School

1940/01/12

“Chicago and NorthWestern train in the drifts near Chadron, Nebraska, Dec/Jan, 1949.”, Folder Number 021

Person sledding down a large snow drift, Blizzard of 1949

1949/01

People seated in front of a historical marker for Fort Hartsuff

1967/09/16

“Custer County Chief, Blizzard, 1949. Damekas” Pictures a dog by a buried truck with the door having been freed from the snow., Folder Number 070

“Ernest Kiel farm home near Lewellen. Snow completely covered south side blocking the door and windows. Taken by Richard Kiel, Lewellen, Ne. Taken 1/5/49.”, Folder Number 039

“Here above you see a road opened by snow plows after the servere blizzard 11/18 and 19/1948. Near the H.R. Holcomb farm four miles northeast of Chambers, Holt Co., Nebraska.”, Folder Number 055

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