Eight men sit shoulder to shoulder on wooden benches outside a brick building. All wear hats, with shirtsleeves, waistcoats, suspenders and bib overalls distinguishing their dress. Several have folded their arms; one holds a small piece of paper in his lap. Tree trunks rise beside the benches and interrupt the brick façade behind them.
White handwriting reproduced within the lower-left corner of the photograph identifies the group as the Ananias Club and the location as “Stromsburg, Nebr.” The caption also carries the view number 9037. The men are not individually named, and the building is not identified; the caption does not establish that it housed the club.
The photograph is issued as a real photo postcard with a divided back and an AZO stamp box. It is unused, without a message, address, stamp or postmark. No photographer or publisher is credited, and neither side supplies a date. The reverse contains no catalogue entry or repeated number with which to match the negative inscription.
- Title on card
- 9037 "Ananias Club" / Stromsburg, Nebr. (inscribed)
- Medium
- RPPC
- Subject
- Nebraska, Outdoor Scene
- Dimensions
- 5.45 × 3.5 in (138.3 × 88.9 mm)
- Condition
- Small patches of surface loss along the left border, including the lower-left corner. The central group image is clean and the card otherwise sound.
- Catalogue no.
- MRPPC3478
Catalogue details
Location
Stromsburg, Nebraska · Stromsburg, Nebraska, United States
Photographed subject · Locality (town) · 95% confidence
The supplied front reading explicitly identifies the photographed scene as “9037 / Ananias Club / Stromsburg, Nebr.” This unambiguous town caption supports Stromsburg, Nebraska, at city precision—not a particular building or street address. The Library of Congress independently catalogs a historical Sanborn map under Stromsburg, Polk County, Nebraska, confirming the geographic identification. ([loc.gov](https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4194sm.g052541889/?utm_source=openai)) Live searches for the club name, town and view number did not locate an independent match to this photograph. Research also located the Nebraska historical gazetteer index, state photograph-collection listings, and the local library’s newspaper and history resources; these did not establish the pictured building. The linked digitized town history was not readable through the research tool. ([history.nebraska.gov](https://history.nebraska.gov/collection_section/1890-1911-gazetteer-index/)) The confidence applies only to
