2025 | Pictures exhibit chronicles early 1900s in western Nebraska

The exhibit features a large panorama of Crawford taken about 1901 and a tripod Souther utilized in her work. Sandoz Center Program Coordinator Laure Sinn stated she and  Bruce McIntosh, Souther’s great-nephew and a Dawes County resident, created the exhibit.

The exhibit includes a pair of Souther’s cross-country skis, an oil portray, her portrait, and images depicting ranching, searching, trapping, cultural, and leisure actions in jap Wyoming and western Nebraska.

Souther, born in 1864 in Ypsilanti, Michigan, was the daughter of Charles McIntosh and Martha Graham.

According to McIntosh, Souther and her two youthful teenage brothers got here to reside with their aunt in Crawford after their mother and father died.

“Mabel had to get an apartment in town during the winter of 1888-89 so that she could regularly open the post office where she was the deputy postmaster,” McIntosh stated.

Souther married Williams Souther in 1892, in response to McIntosh. The couple raised 4 kids: John “Barron,” Susan Page, Grace, and Mabel. Later, she was the chief clerk of the wholesale grocery home Barron & Souther. She died in Lincoln in 1962 and is buried in Crawford.

Souther was commissioned by Marshall Field, a distinguished Chicago enterprise proprietor, to offer photographic documentation of Williams’ and Marshall’s mutual investments. As foreman, Williams oversaw the Big Red/U-Cross ranch. Williams died in 1908 leaving Mabel with many enterprise holdings and 4 kids, in response to McIntosh. Souther photographed a big sheep ranch close to Crawford and the Big Red Ranch close to Ucross, Wyoming.

In 1962, Souther’s daughter Mabel, donated 40 of her pictures to the Nebraska State Historical Society. Her digicam and photographic gear are actually preserved within the society’s museum.