Manning Veterans' history book project
Manning Veterans' history book project
In 2012, the Logeland Studio in Harlan closed their doors forever. An ad was placed in local area newspapers to alert anyone interested in their pictures to come to Harlan, and for a fee they could purchase the whole packet; including prints and/or negatives.
I made the trip to Harlan and worked out a deal with the
owner to purchase the Manning portion of copyrighted photos.
On several sessions over a week I made the trip down to
Harlan to go through the thousands of packets of pictures. Fortunately most of
them were categorized in boxes by year and community, but I still skimmed
through the dozens of large boxes for familiar names.
If I saw a name I recognized I grabbed the packet, so I may have a few packets of events/people from nearby communities but most are connected to Manning.
Most of the packets are from the 1970s through early 1990s and a few are from the late 1960s.
The main theme of the packets are senior pictures and wedding photo sessions, but there are also some sports related and other miscellaneous events that were photographed.
Sadly very few people from the surrounding area came to claim their old pictures. Only one other person from Manning claimed one of their packets.
So for the tens of thousands of photos/negatives that went unclaimed they were eventually thrown in a dumpster and are now gone forever.
As I sat thumbing trough the thousands of packets - one of the ideas I came up with for a fundraising project was - for a donation to the Manning Veterans' history book project a family member would get the wedding packet which includes all pictures and negatives from the photo session by Logeland Studio.
Most couples only chose a few of the prints they wanted from the time of their wedding day. There are generally 40 to 80 negatives in a packet, so in most cases there are many more pictures the couples didn't purchase at that time. You may be pleasantly surprised at some of the people you'll find in the pictures/negatives you did not get copies of during the original session.
I have scanned a random number of pictures/negatives from each wedding packet and can e-mail some thumbnail copies to couples or their children to look at.
If your name is listed below and even if no one in your family is interested in the pictures please e-mail me anyway. There is a lot of history in many of the pictures such as your parents and grandparents (most who are deceased), pastors, friends who are no longer living, interesting scenes in the church or fellowship hall, etc. I'd like to get names for many of these people to archive them in Manning's historical database.
I would encourage anyone not interested in their wedding photos to ask their children if they are interested, so they can have those images of their grandparents and great-grandparents.
These packets will only go to the couple or their children…Only for immediate family members.
If you are interested in your packet please e-mail me and we can work out the details.
If you are interested in your Logeland Studio wedding pictures please email David Kusel
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12 prints Negatives October 12, 1974 |
James Mohr & Cherri Ramsey 58 prints Negatives August 12, 1977 |
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Lenus Borkowski & Kristie Hacker 48 prints Negatives February 12, 1977 |
Roger Musfeldt & JoAnn Borkowski 62 prints Negatives December 27, 1975 |
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23 prints Negatives June 25, 1977 |
Sheryl Musfeldt & Richard Zinke 8 prints Negatives - more than the prints June 1972 |
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No prints Negatives June 1972 |
Bruce Pfannkuch & Rita Madisen 44 prints Negatives November 20, 1976 |
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Keith Fahn & Debby Rasmussen Received donation to Veterans' project51 prints Negatives July 29, 1978 |
Peggy Puck & Frank Osdoba 17 prints Negatives June 1972 |
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19 prints Negatives February 1976 |
10 prints Negatives May 25, 1974 |
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Myrna Guth & Gary Erb 2 prints Lots of Negatives April 1966 |
Sue Grimm 57 prints Negatives July 22, 1978 |
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Kim Haubrich & Rick Spack 61 prints Negatives April 16, 1977 |
30 prints Negatives 1976 |
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JoAnn Dethlefs & Jim Karsten 26 prints Negatives June 23, 1979 |
72 prints Negatives February 2, 1980 |
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52 prints Negatives August 25, 1979 |
Dennis Rowedder & JoAnn Rohe 7 pictures Negatives June 1972 |
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Donna Kuhl & Harm 2 prints 7 Negatives June 1966 |
Connie Sibbel & Robert Snyder Received donation to Veterans' project17 prints Negatives April 1973 |
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No prints Negatives August 1967 |
Donna Sonksen & Erik Simonsen 35 prints Negatives December 28, 1974 |
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36 prints Negatives September 30, 1978 |
Marlys Stoelk & Terry Anderson 65 prints Negatives June 11, 1977 |
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Rick Lohrmann & Georgia Dethlefs 30 prints Negatives July 30, 1977 |
Eugene Stoelk & Karen Stoberl 39 prints Negatives August 16, 1975 |
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Sue Long & Lynn Venteicher Received donation to Veterans' project61 prints Negatives April 21, 1979 |
Vicki Walters 1 print 26 negatives June 1968 |
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Keith Misselhorn & Shelly Boeck 67 prints Negatives May 6, 1978 |
67 prints Negatives August 20, 1977 |
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Darla Schroeder 10 prints - same image of various angles Negatives April 26, 1980 |
18 prints of various poses Negatives March 4, 1980 |
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Gloria Nissen 2 negatives - same style July 1970 |
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Please remember - while I spent a lot of time saving these wedding pictures from the landfill, and I had to pay for the material and copyrights - all money donated from the sale of these packets will go to the Manning Veterans' history book project. The checks will be made out to Manning Veterans' history book committee (MVHBC).
I hope you will seriously consider making the donation to the Manning Veterans' history book project for your wedding packet.
Like with the previous Manning Quasqui and Manning School history book projects…A lot of extra funds have to be raised to complete the Veterans' book project.
NO one makes any money from these history book projects…100% volunteer and some of the volunteers spend a lot of their own money to assist with these projects.
Wedding cake of the past
ring bearer and flower girl
1975
Get me to the church on time