Use the following “evidence” to write a two page historical argument about the photo on page 488 of the farm family with their organ. What kind of narrative can you write? Be creative… no additional research is required.

1. This is the Oliver Russell White family and homestead in Custer County, Nebraska.

2. Oliver Russell White came to Nebraska from London, England as a single man in 1882.

3. White’s upper middle class family in England consisted of nine brothers and three sisters.

4. Oliver Russell White’s wife was born in Poland in 1865 and came to Nebraska with her parents in 1880.

5. The two youngest children in the photo belong to Oliver and his wife; the older children are siblings of the wife. Their parents had died in 1888 from cholera.

7. Solomon Butcher took this photograph so that Oliver White could send a copy home to his family.