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Solomon Butcher
American photographer
Solomon D. Butcher | |
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Butcher, ca. 1901 | |
Born | January 24, 1856 Burton, Virginia |
Died | March 18, 1927 (aged 71) Greeley, Colorado |
Occupation | Photographer |
Known for | Photographs of Nebraska homesteaders |
Solomon D.
Butcher (January 24, 1856 – March 18, 1927) was an itinerant photographer who spent most of his life in central Nebraska, in the Great Plains region of the United States. A settler under the Homestead Act, he began in 1886 to produce a photographic record of the history of settlement in the region in the region including some of a small group of African Americans in Cherry County around the majority black town of Dinwiddy.
Over 3,000 of his negatives survive; more than 1,000 of these depict sod houses. Butcher wrote two books incorporating his photographs: Pioneer History of Custer County and Short Sketches of Early Days in Nebraska (1901), and Sod Houses, or the Development of the Grea