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This should make a nice transition from the crypt shot back into the museum shots. This is a hearse carriage, and, according to the accompanying exhibit description:

Undertaker C.J. From used this horse-drawn hearse from 1899 to 1914 in Newman Grove, Nebraska. The hearse was manufactured by the Rock Falls Manufacturing Company of Sterling, Illinois, about 1890.

I had some trouble trying to find a good way to shoot this exhibit without it looking like just a hearse sitting in a museum, but I think I got it right. Here are a couple more pictures from that day:





On this last one, the exhibit description stated:

Flag which flew at the post office in Recklinghausen, Germany. Recklinghausen was captured on April 1, 1945, by the Third Battalion of the 134th Infantry, Thirty-fifth Division, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Warren C. Wood of Gering, Nebraska.

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More from the Museum of Nebraska History, as part of a Lincoln Flickr group event: this is part of a bison (or buffalo) skeleton. I thought the skull was too obvious a point to focus on, so I chose the ribs instead. I was going to title it differently, but I noticed in small lettering the words "rib sled" in the far upper left corner, and I thought that would make a unique title for it too. Here is another shot, an eagle feather bonnet from a Western Sioux tribe:

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To tell you a little something about my taste, this was my favorite picture from the Museum of Nebraska History, besides perhaps "Phrenology". More to come in the following days.

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The Lincoln Flickr group had another Flickr walk on Saturday, this time to the Museum of Nebraska History. Despite the dim lighting throughout most of the museum, and the rule against flash photography (and my failure to bring a tripod) many of us were able to get some very good shots. This first one is a phrenology bust chart, and it's exactly the kind of thing that I like to shoot. According to the accompanying description, "Phrenology was a popular nineteenth-century pseudoscience that claimed a person's personality and intellect could be determined by studying the shape of the skull." And since this one is so creepy, I thought I'd share a couple other creepy looking shots I took.

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