Six people are arranged across the yard of a clapboard house with steep, intersecting gables, framed by tall leafless trees. Two women stand at the left near a baby in a wicker carriage; a man in a hat and suspenders and a girl occupy the center. The figure beside the horse-drawn delivery wagon holds a bottle.
The enclosed wagon bears the painted name “RIVERSIDE DAIRY.” Metal milk cans and a light-colored dog sit on its front platform, while a darker dog sits on the ground nearby. White handwriting reproduced along the photograph's lower edge reads “D.W.Bliss Riverside Dairy Tilden Nebr.” The caption identifies the business and town, but does not establish which, if any, of the sitters is D. W. Bliss.
A real photographic postcard with a narrow buff border and an unused, undivided reverse. The back is printed “Post Card” above a stars-and-stripes shield, with a stamp box specifying domestic 1-cent and foreign 2-cent postage. No photographer or publisher is credited, and no date is present.
- Title on card
- D.W.Bliss Riverside Dairy Tilden Nebr. (inscribed)
- Medium
- RPPC
- Subject
- Children, Farming, Nebraska, Occupational, Outdoor Scene
- Dimensions
- 5.5 × 3.43 in (139.6 × 87.2 mm)
- Condition
- The photograph is clean and well detailed. Two small dark spots on the reverse; otherwise sound.
- Catalogue no.
- MRPPC3459
Catalogue details
Location
D. W. Bliss's Riverside Dairy, Tilden, Nebraska · Tilden, Nebraska, United States, United States
Photographed subject · Locality (town) · 92% confidence
The supplied photographic caption explicitly reads “D.W.Bliss Riverside Dairy Tilden Nebr.”; the wagon’s “RIVERSIDE DAIRY” lettering corroborates the named subject. This supports Tilden-level identification, not a particular street address. Independent historical corroboration appears in the Madison County Genealogical Society’s transcription of the 1918 Standard Atlas patrons’ directory: D. W. Bliss operated River Side Sheep Ranch in Section 7, Jefferson Precinct, with Tilden as his postal locality. This matches the proprietor and a closely related property name, but does not establish that the photographed dairy house occupied that ranch parcel. ([usgenealogyresearch.atwebpages.com](https://usgenealogyresearch.atwebpages.com/nemcgs/newsletters_library/Vol.%2024%20No.%20103%20May-June%202003..pdf)) Nebraska State Historical Society records independently identify Tilden in Madison and Antelope counties. ([history.nebraska.gov](https://history.nebraska.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/doc
