A real photo postcard looking across an excavated pit toward the Kearney brickyard. Three tall masonry chimneys rise above a complex of timber sheds, with rounded kiln roofs visible at the right. Open fields and scattered buildings extend behind the works.
A horse-drawn buggy occupies the road in the foreground, while a man stands with a bicycle beside the wooden fence bordering the excavation. Several other figures, horses and wagons are visible among the buildings. The view records both the industrial complex and the traffic immediately outside it.
White lettering within the photograph identifies the scene as the Kearney brick yard and credits S. D. Butcher & Son. The Nebraska location agrees with the supplied identification. Neither the date of the exposure nor the proprietor of the works is stated.
The divided postcard reverse has a KRUXO stamp box marked for a one-cent stamp. It is unused, without a message, address, stamp or cancellation; pencil code and price notations appear along the upper edge.
- Title on card
- Kearney Brick YArD (inscribed)
- Medium
- RPPC
- Subject
- Nebraska, Occupational, Outdoor Scene, Solomon Butcher
- Dimensions
- 5.48 × 3.47 in (139.1 × 88.1 mm)
- Condition
- Clean and sound overall, with no substantial tears, losses or heavy staining visible. Pencil dealer notation on the reverse.
- Catalogue no.
- MRPPC3461
Catalogue details
Location
Kearney, Nebraska · Kearney, Nebraska, United States
Photographed subject · Locality (town) · 80% confidence
the card names only the town. Looked up as "Kearney, Nebraska" → Kearney, Kearney, NE, USA. Order tried: caption-town: "Kearney, Nebraska" → city ✓; Live research: The supplied negative caption directly identifies Kearney. The strongest site match is the historical photograph catalogued as “Dick Hibbard Brick Yard, Kearney, Nebraska, after the closing hour,” reproduced by GetArchive with Library of Congress attribution. Its image matches the distinctive combination described: three masonry chimneys, sheds and rounded kilns beyond an excavated pit, and a man with a bicycle beside a wooden fence. This supports identification of the works, although an identical postcard exposure has not been established. ([loc.getarchive.net](https://loc.getarchive.net/media/dick-hibbard-brick-yard-kearney-nebraska-after-the-closing-hour-1)) The 1908 Kearney City Directory independently locates Hibberd Brick Company on the east side of Avenue A between 37th and 40th Streets, distinguishing the industrial
Source: Card caption (town only)
