Shimmering Images - Nebraska Life - May 2018
History books are awash with accounts of early pioneers on the Plains. Life was often harsh and luxuries were few. Photographs documenting the era are even fewer. Farming photographers Henry Balcom and Ray Green documented the everyday lives of their Hall County neighbors from the 1890s to the 1920s. Lost for decades and later rediscovered 200 miles from home, more than 1,200 Balcom-Green glass plate negatives preserving those early days have returned to Cairo. Residents are rediscovering their
