H.E. Kryger Abstract Company and Ballah Land Office, Neligh, Nebraska
Description
Black and white photograph of the southeast corner of 4th and Main Streets, Neligh, Nebraska. Housed in a wood-frame building, the H.E. Kryger Abstract Company and the Ballah Land Office is decorated for a local celebration. Flags, including the American flag, fly from decorated poles. A sign supported by two poles says " Equality Before The Law" another posted on a pole says "Buy land of us and wear diamonds." Other advertise entertainments such as "Have you seen it? Love by the Moon. The grandest of all Paris illusions." Several women are seated on chairs on the sidewalk under an awning and a dog lies on the sidewalk. The two-story wood-frame building to the right has a sign "Millinery" above the second-story windows. In the left background a frame tower holds the fire bell. Nine cross arms top the telephone pole and power lines and transformers hang from other utility poles.
Original format: glass plate negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Historical Note
The building housing the Kryger Abstract Co. was later replaced with a brick building which housed the drugstore. Other photographs show these frame buildings contemporaneous with the Auditorium building built in 1907. The intersection lights were installed in 1900, thus supporting the dating.
Antelope County Historical Society
