Two boys, Kennard Wallace and William Wallace, Jr., are standing amid some bushes in Curtiss Turner Park in this black and white lantern slide. Trees and a dirt path can be seen in the background.
The land for Curtiss Turner Park was donated to the city of Omaha by Charles Turner in 1900. He made the donation in memory of his son, Curtiss C. Turner, who died in 1898. The boys in the park are the sons of William Wallace, who was a vice president of Omaha National Bank, as well as the president of the Omaha Library Board. Source: Morton, Julius Sterling. Illustrated History of Nebraska: A History of Nebraska from the Earliest Explorations of the Trans-Mississippi Region, with Steel Engravings, Copper Plates, Maps, and Tables, Volume 1. Lincoln: J. North, 1905, p. 762; Spencer, Jeffrey. Historic Photos of Omaha. Nashville: Turner Publishing, 2007, p. 96.