Four mules stand harnessed to a high-wheeled stagecoach crowded with passengers inside and on the roof. Pennants hang from the coach, while several young men seated above wear leather football headgear, sweaters, knee-length trousers and long socks. One passenger sits high above the others.
The coach fills the street before a row of commercial buildings with broad canvas awnings and ornamental window surrounds. Spectators gather along the pavement; adults and children also watch from open upper-story windows. An American flag projects from a storefront at the right. The passengers, buildings and street are not individually identified.
The photographic caption numbers the view 11 and identifies the occasion as the stock show parade in Nebraska City on October 20, 1908. The unused divided back bears the imprint “Made by Olson Photograph Co., Plattsmouth, Nebr.” Plattsmouth is the maker’s location, not the depicted town. No message, address, stamp or postmark is present.
- Title on card
- No. 11. STOCK SHOW PARADE, OCT. 20TH. .08 NEBRASKA CITY NEB.
- Medium
- RPPC
- Subject
- American Flag, Children, Nebraska, Outdoor Scene, Sports and Games
- Dimensions
- 5.46 × 3.45 in (138.6 × 87.7 mm)
- Condition
- Short diagonal crease in the lower-left blank border and two dark smudges on the reverse; otherwise clean and sound.
- Catalogue no.
- MRPPC3466
Catalogue details
Location
Nebraska City, Nebraska · Nebraska City, Nebraska, United States
Photographed subject · Locality (town) · 95% confidence
The supplied front caption explicitly identifies Nebraska City, Nebraska, and dates the stock show parade to October 20, 1908. This unambiguous town caption supports city-level identification; Plattsmouth appears only in the photographer’s imprint and is not the depicted location. Independent research found an auction catalogue entry for a 1908 Nebraska City stock-show-parade photographic postcard, corroborating the event and town, but not establishing that it is this exact No. 11 view. ([icollector.com](https://www.icollector.com/Stock-Show-Parade-Horse-Drawn-Wagon-1908-Nebraska-City-Photo-Postcard_i44155368)) The Library of Congress catalogs a May 1906 Sanborn atlas for Nebraska City, and the state’s historic-building survey reproduces a 1906 commercial-street photograph; neither establishes a match to the unnamed storefronts described here. ([loc.gov](https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4194nm.g052201906/?sp=1&utm_source=openai)) No exact building, street segment, or historical street num
Source: Stock Show Parade Horse Drawn Wagon 1908 Nebraska City Photo Postcard — auction catalogue
