Are you a descendant of someone who attended
Manning town or country schools?

You may have never visited or lived in Manning but if you are reading this you probably are looking for help with your genealogy or wanting to know about the community your parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, or other relative lived in.

If so we need your help!!!
Through my research and using my web pages for the last 10 years I have found that people who lived here and then moved away - even if they still had family members living here - usually took along photos and memorabilia. These old school photos, family photos, celebrations pictures, etc. are often passed down to people like yourself who are now doing family and historical research.

If you are looking for information - I may be able to help you - but then I also need you to help me by sharing your old photos and information with me.
My web pages are available for all to use for research and there is NO charge, NO advertising, NO pop-up boxes and I receive NO money.

It takes thousands of hours to maintain a web page of this magnitude and also costs me money for the web space. The content amount and quality of it can only be maintained and improved if you take some of your time to help me by sharing what you have. Remember that the more information I have on these web pages will help others (who are researching your same family) find me and then in turn I can get them in contact with you.

So PLEASE contact me and help out by sharing your old Manning photos and historical information and genealogy.

Please use this e-mail address manningia@davidkusel.com

Below is a perfect example of what I'm looking for - an original picture of the Manning class of 1900. This 1900 picture is a scan from a 1950s newspaper clipping.
We are looking for an original Lyden Studio photo or a high resolution digital scan of the original 1900 picture which would be a wonderful addition to the Manning School history book.

Carroll Times Herald
June 12, 1950

CLASS OF 1900 HOLDS 50th YEAR REUNION . . . June 8 was a red-letter day for members of the Manning high school class of 1900, shown above as they appeared on graduation day. Seated, left to right, front row: Phil Signall, Carroll; Mrs. Olive (Pickett) Russell, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Orr Marshall, address not known; Mrs. Emma (Summerville) Carsten, Omaha, Neb.; Peter Rademan, deceased; Mrs. Lillian (Halford) Dolbeer, Salt Lake City, Utah; Fred Wiseman, Casa Grande, Ariz.;

Standing, left to right, Robert Summerville, deceased; Mrs. Myrtle (Arp) Kenney, Norfolk, Neb.; Henry Brunnier, San Francisco, Calif.; Julius Miller, Denison; Mrs. Nellie (Signall) Lynch, Manning, and Julius Tank, Los Angeles, Calif. The picture was taken by the Lyden Studio at Manning, which is still in business. Members of the class met at Manning and later in the day came to Carroll. (THNS photo courtesy Phil Signall.)

Original photos or high resolution digitally scanned images of original photos are what we are looking for.

A word about newspaper clippings vs the original photo. Pictures in newspapers are made up of a large dot pattern print and are useless when trying to get a sharp high quality digital scanned image for use on the Internet or in the publication of the Manning school history book.

This first (cropped) photo shows the dot pattern of the above photo which was a newspaper clipping scanned 20 inches at 200dpi.

Notice how the dots show up.

Next I reduced the original scanned image to 10 inches by 85 dpi and then the dots form a type of checkerboard pattern which detracts from the cropped image.

To improve the web page image the original scan was reduced to 6 inches and lowered the dpi to 85 which gives a decent image and is shown above in the whole 1900 class picture.