A 3"x5" acetate negative, copy of an earlier photograph of downtown David City, Nebraska, in 1878. A row of one-story wood-sided buildings with signs above advertising "Harness Shop", "W. F. Gates", "Heale's Excelsior Meat Market" and "Butler County Bank", covered boardwalks in front of most of the shops with groups of men most wearing black suits, white shirts, ties and hats, several men standing in a wagon or buggy, a woman wearing a white dress standing in between two of the buildings, hitching posts in front with one horse tied up, barren plains surrounding the buildings with leafless trees in the foreground.
