What the Wheat Beard Did

I mentioned that I had a few photos of Noland White; here is one of them, and you can judge for yourself whether he looks like any of the Nickel Plate section workers.


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Images courtesy of E. Harms.

Notes on the back:



No date on the photo, but as we know, Noland died in 1945.

Poor horse! I had no idea that a wheat beard (aka brush, or awn) could be so dangerous.

Bill Prochno, who owned the horses, was Noland's father-in-law.

How the heck some photographer in Iowa got involved with this, I have no idea. I can find very little information on Geppert Studios.