Original log cabin home of the Lembergers, Germanville, October 1900

Item Overview

Title

Original log cabin home of the Lembergers, Germanville, October 1900

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

October, 1900

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

A photograph of what remained of the Lemberger family's original log cabin home in 1900 at Germanville. It is viewed from an angle with two sides of the abode visible. There is a gap between the roof and the logs on the shorter side of the cabin which faces right. A large haystack stands in the foreground at left and partially obscures the cabin. A barn stands to the right of the log cabin. Portions of a fence can be seen in the foreground at right and between the log cabin and barn.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 482. Germanville, Iowa. October 1900. [handwritten: checkmark] Mother and Uncle John Lemberger, mother's brother, by the pump. Other unknown. Think this is the Miller home. The log cabin shown here is all that remains of the original home of the Lembergers in Germanville - or on a farm close by. Mother told me once that her father was about the only one of the men at Germanville who could read English, and that when he would get a newspaper, he would mount a stump of a tree and read it to the assembled neighbors. 3 x [2 crossed out] 3 negatives

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Subjects

Farms--Iowa--Germanville
Log cabins--Iowa--Germanville
Haystacks--Iowa--Germanville

Location

Iowa--Germanville

Resource type

still image