HISTORY NEBRASKA MANUSCRIPT FINDING AID
RG1089.AM: Adolph Herman Hilpert, 1899-1946
Papers: 1939-1940
Alliance, Box Butte County, Nebraska: Teacher
Size: One folder
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Born June 7, 1899, Adolph H. Hilpert graduated from Burwell High School in 1919. He attended the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, where he graduated in 1923. Hilpert took a year of graduate courses at Iowa State College in Ames, Iowa. In 1937 he was on the faculty at Alliance High School in Alliance, Nebraska. Adolph H. Hilpert died on December 9, 1946. He is buried in Cottonwood Cemetery, Burwell, Nebraska.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The collection contains a manuscript by A.H. Hilpert of Alliance, Nebraska, entitled, “The Second Sioux Creek Massacre,” in which he writes of a 1916 historical pageant that commemorated the first Sioux Creek Massacre of Garfield County, Nebraska. He describes the filming of the pageant by Frank A. Harrison of the Nebraska State Historical Society. Also included is some correspondence with A.E. Sheldon from 1939-1940 concerning the publication of the manuscript.
INVENTORY
“The Second Sioux Creek Massacre” by A.H. Hilpert
Misc. correspondence, 1939-1940
ADDITIONAL OR RELATED MATERIALS
Harrison, Frank A., “Nebraska History Plays in Nebraska,” Nebraska History, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 5-6.
See also the Frank A. Harrison photo collection [RG4497.PH].
Subject headings:
Burwell (Nebraska) — History
Garfield County (Nebraska) — History
Harrison, Frank A., 1880-1934
Hilpert, Adolph Herman, 1899-1946
Indians of North America
Pageants — Nebraska — Burwell
Pageants — Nebraska — Garfield County
Sheldon, Addison Erwin, 1861-1943
Revised TMM 05-02-2008
