The Nebraska State Historical Society has collected photographic images since its founding, and today its photo collections are reknowned in the nation and the world. Numbering over 1/2 million images, our photographic holdings represent nearly every aspect of life in Nebraska and the Great Plains from the later 1800s to the near present. The formats included run the spectrum of photographic technology, from daguerreotypes and tintypes to studio portraits, glass plate negatives to slides, "circuit" panorama photos to snapshots and albums. While countless people, places and subjects are captured in these images, the collections are particularly rich in portraits, town scenes, shots of buildings, and images of Native Americans and Prairie life.

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