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The photograph shows a part of Joseph Littlefield's family (his second wife Charlotte, his children from two marriages, his sisters) near the Littlefields' home in Aurora, Nebraska where Joseph moved in 1904. Born in Peoria County, Illinois in 1840…

This photograph of the May 8th train depot fire comes from the Littlefield family papers in the collection of Terri and Dave Maban. The photo is one of the series of several photos taken of the Chicago Burlington & Quincy (CB&Q) Railroad…

Joseph Littlefield, pictured here sitting in the front row, second from the left was a member of the Prairieville Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) chapter while he homesteaded in the Clear Creek area and always travelling to the veterans' meetings…

This is a letter to Charlotte Littlefield from her sister Anna and her husband Theodore. Anna probably wrote this letter in the late 1930s or early 1940s, since this is the time the interest in family historyrekindles. Charlotte (Lotta) Littlefield…

This is the photograph of Josephine Littlefield (standing third from the right), a participant in the Aurora High School presentation. Born in 1896, Josephine was a child of Joseph and Charlotte Littlefield, a family of homesteaders in Sherman…

This is the photograph of Clarence Mabon (standing third from the left in the third row in light clothes), a participant in the Aurora High School presentation. Born in 1896 in Pennsylvania, Clarence went to high school in Aurora, Nebraska and later…

This is the Morrises' anniversary photo and a decoration from the original wedding dress preserved in the family history record. The wife, Elizabeth (Eliza) Morris (nee Frerichs) was a child of the German emigrants' descendants who settled in Otoe…

This is the photograph of Elizabeth Frerichs and her friend Christie Mesigaclis made in the 1900s. Images that portray two friends dressed up and sitting for a photograph that would become a keepsake of their friendship are more rare than traditional…

This is the Frerichs family photograph, with Herman Meinard Frerichs, his wife Rena Bohlken and their elder daughter Elizabeth, born in 1882. Herman Frerichs emigrated from Etzel in the Kingdom of Hannover with his parents in 1857, when he was just…

This is the funeral photograph of Patrick Kennedy, Sue Eickhoff's great-grandfather. An emigrant form Ireland, Patrick Kennedy homesteaded in the town of Coleridge in Cedar County, NE. Funeral photographs used to be much more common then they are…