Item #3973 [Folding Panoramic Paneled Photo of a Corn Farm and Feed Lot Owned by B.F. Trosper of Cambridge, Nebraska]. Nebraska, Western Photographica.
[Folding Panoramic Paneled Photo of a Corn Farm and Feed Lot Owned by B.F. Trosper of Cambridge, Nebraska]

[Folding Panoramic Paneled Photo of a Corn Farm and Feed Lot Owned by B.F. Trosper of Cambridge, Nebraska]

Cambridge, Ne. F.M. Steele, 1926. Four photographs in five segments, 7 x 46 inches in length, folding to 7 x 9 inches on a card mount, 10 x 12 inches. Images joined with linen. Light wear to card, photo generally clean and crisp. Very good. Item #3973

An interesting documentary panoramic photograph depicting the livelihood and agricultural success of one B.F. Trosper of Cambridge, Nebraska. Each panel is captioned in the negative, with the third photo occupying two segments of the panorama. The first shows Trosper, a woman we presume to be his wife, and two other men who may be hired hands; the woman sits at the wheel of a Model T which is parked parallel to the photographer, while Trosper stand with one foot on the running board. The two men stand behind the car, and a stacked pen of corn is used as a background. The caption reads, "The finest background for pictures in Nebraska is corn. This is B.F. Trosper of Cambridge, Neb." The second panel shows a worker and a dog standing to the right edge of the image which proudly displays seven pens of corn piled high: "12,000 bushels of corn. One half of the amount that was raised in 1924-25 by B.F. Trosper of Cambridge, Neb." The third image again shows the car parked in front of the corn pens on the left, with a tractor and plow parked on the right side of the image, the farmhouse and windmill in the background. Each panel of this photo has a caption: "B.F. Trosper, one of south west Nebraska's successful farmers and stock growers" and "B.F. Trosper owns 1840 acres of land he has bought since 1884 commenced without a dollar, Cambridge, Neb." The final panel depicts Trosper's cows in the feed lot. Francis Marion Steele (1866-1936) was a noted itinerant Western photographer who captured cowboys and cattle drives, roaming the West to document ranch life and farming operations.

Price: $850.00