AERIAL VIEW OF DOWNTOWN LINCOLN. The photographer's perch for this cityscape was the Metropolitan Apartments, an eight-story structure built in 1916 at Twelfth and K Streets. In the foreground is Baldwin Terrace, one of Lincoln's few row houses built in the 1880s. The tall white office building at the center of the horizon is the Terminal Building, built by Lincoln Traction Company as the terminus of its streetcar system in 1916.

Photographs taken on black and white glass...
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AERIAL VIEW OF DOWNTOWN LINCOLN. The photographer's perch for this cityscape was the Metropolitan Apartments, an eight-story structure built in 1916 at Twelfth and K Streets. In the foreground is Baldwin Terrace, one of Lincoln's few row houses built in the 1880s. The tall white office building at the center of the horizon is the Terminal Building, built by Lincoln Traction Company as the terminus of its streetcar system in 1916.

Photographs taken on black and white glass negatives by African American photographer(s) John Johnson and Earl McWilliams from 1910 to 1925 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Douglas Keister has 280 5x7 glass negatives taken by these photographers. Larger scans available on request.
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