1959 Nebraska

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Heavy equipment shows up more than anything else in this collection. A yellow backhoe hauls a large concrete tank out of the ground on chains, a bulldozer pushes dirt into a mound while a dump truck waits, and a man in a red jacket works a front-end loader near a pile of rocks. In another reel, men in plaid shirts load cut branches and firewood into a blue pickup.

A banner reading "1959 NEPPCO Poultry" hangs over the doors of a large brick building, filmed several times as a man in a suit and women in bright dresses cross the lot. A wedding reception shows a groom in a gray suit beside a tiered cake.

At home, a woman in a sleeveless dress sets curlers in another woman's hair in a tiled bathroom, a toddler in checkered overalls dances and pushes a red wooden scooter, and someone plays a tan electric organ. The Chadron clips add a man on a porch swing, two women chatting outside a brick house, and white houses half buried in snow.