Discover the History Nebraska Manuscript Collections

Lincoln Sport Plane, blueprint drawing [RG3726.AM: Encil Chambers]

For this October’s celebration of Archives Month, we would like to tell you a little more about accessing the manuscript collections here at History Nebraska.  When we use the term, “manuscript,” here at HN, it refers to any set of documents in our collections that come from a private source.  Our manuscript collections include the personal papers of families and individuals, as well as records relating to businesses and organizations.  To see a listing of all of our different manuscript collections, visit our Manuscript Collections page on our website.  The listings are alphabetical by type, including Business Records, Church Records, Family/Individual Records, Organizational Records, and Political Records.  Items within the collections may include letters, diaries, financial statements, minutes of meetings, legal documents, architectural drawings, etc.  To make the collections more accessible, we try to provide detailed inventories of what all is contained within each collection.  These inventories, or “finding aids,” are then linked to the appropriate collection name listed on the website.