78 NEBRASKAland • AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2016
Send contributions to: Portraits from the Past, NEBRASKAland Magazine, P.O. Box 30370, Lincoln, NE 68503-0370. Or e-mail to
Tim.Reigert@Nebraska.gov. Photos should show people enjoying Nebraska outdoor activities, such as camping, boating, hunting or fishing, and must have
been taken before 1980. We will give priority to unusual photos or activities. When possible, please include a story about the photograph and identify the
people, places and approximate date it was taken. Photos will be returned.
This photo was taken on the west end of Harlan
County Dam in 1975. Hans DeVry and LaVerne
(Curley) Jacobsen. My father, LaVerne, was on the
Game Commission in the 1950s. He, Hans, and
Virgel Welsh [the photographer?] hunted mostly
on the Middle Loup river near St. Paul
– Vernella Pettijohn, Axtell, Nebraska
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This photo was published in the Wilber Republican newspaper, Nov. 2, 1961, p. 1. Pictured L to R are Robert Havel (my grandfather), Saline
County Sheriff John Tesar, and James Kohel. They shot the first legal deer during the first 5-day rifle deer season in Saline County. The deer
were taken 2 miles east and 2 miles south of Wilber on the Stanley Jiskra farm.
– Russell Ripa, Lincoln, Nebraska
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