The cache of archival photos recovered from the Tillotson homestead includes an image of a wooden elevator complex, but there are no inscriptions on back of the photo so we have no clue of the location or date.
Close inspection of the image reveals the smaller of the two elevator buildings is labeled. It appears that “Farmers Co-Op” was painted over other lettering, possibly “Grain & Coal.”
The larger building–how about that headhouse!–is labeled Farmers Co-Op Co.
We sure wish we could identify the woman standing on the office porch. She is buttoned up tight inside her overcoat and giving a nice smile.
The car looks like a mid-1930s Pontiac.
There are other markings. We see the numerals 2 and 8 at the extreme left but can’t explain them. Three signs hang on the outer walls of the office. The one the car is facing advertises Semi Solid Buttermilk, a brand of partially dehydrated buttermilk that was used as a livestock and poultry feed supplement.
Brand advertising claimed: “When Sows are fed Semi-Solid they have little or no trouble from ‘dreaded white scours’ among the pigs.”
Signs to either side of the woman are illegible, but the shingle under the gable is inscribed Fairbanks Scales.
All the signs would lend the elevator a stamp of authentication: a patron of this establishment could be assured of getting the most advanced and most accurate services.
In general, the whole complex projects a mighty aura, and it’s easy to suspect this was one of the leading operations in its region.
Our Grandfathers' Grain Elevators 
Love the photograph, and the mystery!
I did some digging on Farmers Co-op and turned up a couple of photographs that bear resemblance to the design pictured above, but likely, there were many of a similar design. The 1907 Dorchester Times (Nebraska) ran a phto of the Dorchester Elevators which is quite similar. There were newspaper ads for Farmers Grain and Coal in Firth, NE, Tamora, NE, and Bennet, NE. A story on the Pocahontas, Iowa Farmers Grain and Coal Company shows an early 1900s photograph of a building that appears to be shaped like the one in the photograph, with the same markings on the sides of the elevators. It was interesting to read more about the early elevators. There were numerous items about the Palmer, Nebraska Farmers Co-op, but none contained photos. The item with the 1900s photograph was located at https://procooperative.com/our-history/.