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  • Collection: George Simons Frontier Sketches

1-Simons Print - Hunting Buffalo.tif
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

Hunting Buffalo in Central Kansas. Sept 1865. GM Dodge and NP Dodge.

1-Simons Print - Hunting Antelope.tif
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

Hunting Antelope in Wyoming Territory August 1865.

1-Simons Print - Home on Pierce St.tif
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

Dwelling on Pierce Street in which N. P. Dodge lived during winter of 1864 & 5. Formally occupied by GM Dodge also by Sylvanus Dodge…

1-Simons Print - Home of N.P. Dodge.tif
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

Home of Nathan P Dodge from Apr 1865 to 1888 (Except years 1880 & 81). Carrie L., John L., N Phillips, and Ellen Dodge born here.

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1-Simons Print - G.M. Dodge's engineering camp near Crescent City.tif
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

GM Dodge Engineer Camp in Missouri River bottom near Crescent City Iowa. Sept 1853. Rock Island RR Survey. Sketched by George Simons, cook…

1-Simons Print - First Cabin Home pf Rev. G.G. Rice.jpg
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

1-Simons Print - Ferry across the Elkhorn River.tif
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

Ferry across Elkhorn River 25 miles NW of Omaha 1854.

1-Simons Print - Emigrants to Utah & California.tif
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

Emigrants to Utah and California crossing Elkhorn river 25 miles North West of Omaha, Nebraska. 1854-55. GM Dodge Cabin.

1-Simons Print - Emigrant Ferry.tif
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

Emigrant Ferry across Elkhorn River. 23 M NW of Omaha Neb. 1854 & 1855.

GM Dodge's cabin in foreground. Looking South.

1-Simons Print - Elder Orson Hyde's Residence.tif
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

Elder Orson Hydes residence on Washington Ave Council Bluffs.

1-Simons Print - Dagger's Saw Mill.tif
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

Daggers Saw Mill near Corner Mill & Sixth Streets - Council Bluffs. Sketched by George Simons in 1854.

1-Simons Print - Council Bluffs in 1858.tif
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

Council Bluffs in 1858. View from Hospital Hill, looking South West

1-Simons Print - Council Bluffs in 1858 Looking South.tif
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

Looking South. Council Bluffs in 1858. View taken from hill where Hospital now stands.

1-Simons Print - Council Bluffs in 1858 Looking North.tif
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

1-Simons Print - Claimes of Sylvanus Dodge and G.M. Dodge.tif
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

Looking South over the claims of Sylvanus Dodge and G. M. Dodge to Ferry across Elkhorn River. 1854-1858.

1-Simons Print - Captain Carlisle's California Train.tif
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

Captain Carlisle's California Train on the Platte Valley 1859.

1-Simons Print - Arkansas Traveler.tif
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

1-Simons Print - 1st temp bridge  between C.B. and Omaha.tif
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

First temporary bridge between Council Bluffs and Omaha and the first train of cars crossing, Winter 1867.

1-Simons Print - 1st Grist Mill.tif
First Grist Mill in Pott County built by S E ... for Pott tribe of Indians, located on Mosquito Creek, afterwards known as Parks Mill. Sketches in 1854. Rebuilt in 1852.

1-Simons Print - 1st Claim cabin in Nebraska.tif
The first Claim Cabin built in Nebraska by Dan Norton in 1853 between Omaha & Bellevue.
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