A crowd fills the platform beside a passenger train at the Chicago & North Western station in O’Neill, Nebraska. The depot wall carries the signboard “O’NEILL.” while a passenger train stands at the platform; car-side lettering includes “C. & N. W…” with visible numbers “141” and “25.” Milk cans and crates sit near the track, and a covered wagon—its sideboard partly reading “AMERICAN …”—occupies the foreground. The lower border is printed “Scene at C. & N. W Station” at center-left and “O’Neill, Neb” at right; a small “Q” appears at the far left of the border.
Back: printed “POST CARD” with the legends “THIS SPACE FOR MESSAGE” and “THIS SPACE FOR ADDRESS ONLY,” a KRUXO stamp box reading “KRUXO … One Cent Stamp Here,” and the vertical imprint “MADE BY T. E. HALLDORSON CO., MAKERS, WHOLESALERS AND RETAILERS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC POST CARDS, O’NEILL, NEB.”
The occasion for the gathering is not stated.
- Title on card
- Scene at C. & N. W Station O'Neill, Neb
- Medium
- RPPC
- Subject
- Nebraska, Occupational, Outdoor Scene, Railroad
- Dimensions
- 5.52 × 3.5 in (140.3 × 89.0 mm)
- Condition
- Small crease at upper-left corner; no visible tears or losses. Unmailed.
- Catalogue no.
- MRPPC3494
Catalogue details
Location
O'Neill, Nebraska · O'Neill, Nebraska, United States
Photographed subject · Locality (town) · 80% confidence
“C. & N. W Station O'Neill, Neb” was not located; pinned on the town as a placeholder. Looked up as "O'Neill, Nebraska" → O'Neill, O'Neill, NE 68763, USA. Order tried: caption-landmark: "C. & N. W Station O'Neill, Neb, Nebraska" → only region; caption-town: "O'Neill, Nebraska" → city ✓; Live research: The postcard’s front explicitly captions “Scene at C. & N. W Station O’Neill, Neb,” and the depot wall bears the signboard “O’NEILL.” Passenger-car initials “C. & N. W.” match the Chicago & North Western Railway. Independent historical sources confirm that O’Neill was on the C&NW’s “Cowboy Line” and had a C&NW depot that survives as the O’Neill Historic Depot Building. Nebraska Game & Parks describes the site as the brick depot at O’Neill, restored and now home to Holt County Economic Development; Nebraska Tourism and HCED list it at 330 E. Hancock St. Additional independent postcard and photo records identify the C&NW depot at O’Neill by name, including a real-photo postcard titled “New
Source: Card caption (town only)
