Title:
[Rock Creek Stage Station]
Date:
[between 1858 and 1860]
Identifier:
DAG-0115
Format:
1 photograph : ambrotype ; quarter plate, visible image 2 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.
Content/Description:
View of the Rock Creek Stage Station, Nebraska, where Wild Bill Hickok had his first big fight. Shows man on horseback at
left; horse-drawn stage coach at right; two wooden buildings and a corral behind and to the left of the stagecoach with several
people standing outside.
Image Package Note:
Original component parts: plate, preserver (or small, irregular brass mat?) Cover glass: added glass. Preserver: textured.
Case or Exterior Container Note:
Type: case. Motif: geometric. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 4 ¾ x 3 ¾ in. Pad: embossed red velvet. Notes: case
unhinged.
General Administrative Note:
DAGUERREOTYPE-V: OUT OF STATE: NEBRASKA: JEFFERSON CO.: ROCK CREEK STAGE STATION C
Alternative Form:
Copy prints available for viewing filed in the Photograph File under "Out of State: Nebraska: Jefferson Co.: Rock Creek Stage
Station"; accession numbers 2000-0216 through 2000-0223.
Negatives, No. 27a-j (4x5 in.) B/W, color, and color transparencies.
Subjects:
Transportation--Nebraska--Jefferson County.
Stagecoaches--Nebraska--Jefferson County.
Jefferson County (Neb.)--Photographs.
Carriages & coaches.
Genre/Format:
Landscapes.
Ambrotypes.