Jacobs Photography

07/22/2023

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02/04/2023

/ David Hume /
"David Hume was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. Beginning with A Treatise of Human Nature, Hume strove to create a naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Hume argued against the existence of innate ideas, positing that all human knowledge derives solely from experience. This places him with Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and George Berkeley as a British Empiricist. Hume argued that inductive reasoning and belief in causality cannot be justified rationally; instead, they result from custom and mental habit. We never actually perceive that one event causes another but only experience the "constant conjunction" of events."
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Born: David Home, 7 May NS [26 April OS] 1711, Edinburgh, Scotland
Died: August 25, 1776, Edinburgh, Scotland
Alma mater: University of Edinburgh

01/14/2014

A series of photos of the Omaha Tribe - circa 1908.
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01/13/2014

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In 1908, the brilliant poet and writer John G. Neihardt traveled by canoe down the then-untamed Missouri River for fifty-six days, from Fort Benton, Montana, to Sioux City, Iowa—a journey of 2,000 miles. He published a travelogue as The River and I. The trip was the beginning of extensive travel and research for his large poetry project: a cycle of five epic poems to represent the time span from the arrival of the fur traders on the Plains to the end of the Ghost Dance movement at the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre. His account, rousing and elegantly reflective, showcases the long ago, fascinating world through which the mighty river passed. The River and I is at once a classic adventure tale, an enduring homage to the Old West, and a tale of an abiding love for a relentless river and those affected by it.

The photographer for this trip was his friend, W.L. Jacobs Jr. Here are some of the photos from that epic journey.

12/31/2013

John G. Neihardt. Age 25. Picture taken by his traveling buddy and drinking friend, W.L. Jacobs.

12/03/2013

Various pictures from Oakland (Ne.) in 1937 enhanced with color.
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12/03/2013

King Beef - A product of Burt County 1937
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A product of Burt County
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12/03/2013

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12/03/2013

Various pictures of Oakland (Ne.) from1898-1937
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12/03/2013

Various pictures of downtown Oakland (Ne.) from 1895-1937.
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12/03/2013

Various Pictures of Churches in Oakland (Ne.) in 1937
First Lutheran Church 1937
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