HISTORY NEBRASKA MANUSCRIPT FINDING AID
RG1143.AM: Emil Kopac
Papers: 1917-1969; mostly 1925-1928 and 1949-1955
Scottsbluff, Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska
Size: One folder
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The collection contains miscellaneous papers of Emil Kopac of Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Included are items concerning fundraising efforts fo the West Nebraska Methodist Hospital in Scottsbluff in 1925; book lists and subscription forms for the anti-papal publisher “The Rail-Splitter,” of Milan, Illinois; Kopac’s real estate tax statements (ca. 1950s) for Garden County, Nebraska property; envelopes and telegrams relating to the Kopac Brothers business in Omaha, Nebraska; a program for the 1969 rodeo held in Hardin, Montana; misc. items relating to the Oregon Trail including hand-drawn maps showing portions of the Trail near Julesburg, Colorado and Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, and a notebook containing Oregon Trail mileage. Also included in the collection is a letter dated November 2, 1917 from H.B. Chronister at Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico, to Kopac in which he tells of camp life and the health conditions of the soldiers serving along the Mexico border.
Note: See also the photo component [RG1143.PH]. The Nebraska History Index and the Newspaper Index card catalog contain references to Emil Kopac.
Subject headings:
Anti-Catholicism — United States
Camp Cody (New Mexico)
Chronister, H.B.
Fundraising — Nebraska — Scottsbluff
Kopac Brothers (Omaha, Nebraska)
Kopac, Emil
Oregon Trail
Scottsbluff (Nebraska) — History
West Nebraska Methodist Hospital (Scottsbluff, Nebraska)
Wingett, J.M.
Revised TMM 04-20-2009
