4 stereoview lot. Early 1900\'s. Untitled, but they seem to be of the Rock Creek Station area in Nebraska. Part of of Oregon Trail. The one card with names, I was able to find a few matching published in a book in 1912.
Pioneer Tales of the Oregon Trail and of Jefferson County published in 1912.
\"The soft sandstone at Rock Creek Station and at Dripping Springs on Whisky Run offered an opportunity for the trailers to register at the last outposts of civilization. Many availed themselves, but the stone is of such texture that it soon weathers, and in a decade or so becomes washed and worn until the names are hardly legible.Perhaps over 1000 names, all told, were carved on these stones, and 500 or more could have been deciphered in 1880, but in 1910 hardly a hundred were in shape to be copied for publication. Indeed, it makes. lovers of pioneer antiquities sad and feel the full sense of pity that these rocks and these names could not have been preserved in some manner for all time to come, and more so when they realize that in a few years the last of the names will be effaced.\"
The three landscape views are true stereoviews. The card with the names is heavily shifted, basically showing two different sections of the wall area.Condition: Corner/edge wear. Some scratching/soiling.
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