VIEW WEST ON O STREET, C. 1910. On a typically windy day, O Street--Lincoln's "Main Street"--appears to be decked out for the Fourth of July. The camera was positioned on the south sidewalk near Fourteenth Street, looking west. The tall building at the center of the view was the six-story Burr Block, Lincoln's first "skyscraper," built in 1888.

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.