The History Nebraska library is the only library in the state that collects old phonebooks from towns, cities, or regions in Nebraska. The coverage is from the early ...
A database (1860-1954 Tract Books Index) has been compiled that allows researchers to locate references within the 163 land tract books that list the first owners of ...
By: Gerald E. Sherard429 South Moore St.Lakewood, CO 80226-2629(2001)
Much of the land in Nebraska was obtained by homesteading under the Homestead Act of May 20, ...
A database (WWI Draft Registration Cards: 1917-1918 Nebraska Index) has been compiled that allows researchers to locate name references within the Draft Card Records. ...
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Personal memories from the History Nebraska collections.
We all want to preserve the memories we treasure. These can be of family, friends, special moments, or ...
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Hide Paintings
Native American tribes of the Great Plains have long recorded heroic deeds and significant events by painting on hide or canvas. For the Lakota, ...
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Diaries & Journals
The word diary is from the Latin diarium or "daily allowance." In Europe during the Renaissance, well-to-do young men kept travel ...
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Autograph Albums
Oh! sometime come with gentle eye,And o'er these pages kindly bend;Then memory will give a sighFor each beloved, departed friend!My name will ...
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Scrapbooks
While in the midst of school life you think its memories always will be fresh. Soon it will be over, the old associations gone, and the pleasant ...
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Photograph Albums
Early photographs were one-of-a-kind images, created as positive pictures for which no negative existed. With no negative from which to create ...
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Quilts
"Well it must have been quite a surprise to you to get such a quilt. It looks as though some one else thought something of you as well as me, but you ...
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Home Movies
Motion-Picture Portraits Are Life's ONLY Replica!      From a Victor Ciné Sales Corp advertisement, about 1925.
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The home ...