Sear Family
Title
Sear Family
Subject
Sear Family Artifact Collection
Description
Collection of Artifacts belonging to the Randy and JoAnn Sear and their family. Items are physical, ephemera objects with relation to the 19th century and early forms of photography, mainly Daguerreotype. Also included are photographs, educational artifacts, and wooden box items.
Creator
April White
UNK History Harvest
Director: Dr. Jinny A. Turman
Source
Sear Family
Publisher
University of Nebraska at Kearney
Date
06/20/2015
Contributor
University of Nebraska at Kearney - History Harvest
April White (Curator)
Dr. Jinny A. Turman (Project Director)
Dr. Tom Kiffmeyer (Digital Photographic Archivist)
Rights
History Department - University of Nebraska at Kearney
Sear Family
Relation
History Harvest
Format
JPEG Collection of Artifacts, Ephemera, Photographs
Language
English
Type
Collection
Identifier
Sear_UNK_History_Harvest_2015
Coverage
Nebraska
Kearney, Nebraska
Shelton, Nebraska
Detroit, Michigan
Collection Items
Trippensee Planetarium
This Trippensee Planetarium c. 1900 was created and originally used for educational purposes in a classroom setting. It had possibly been found by John Spahr in a schoolhouse near Shelton, Nebraska. The object is made of various materials, and still…
Four Daguerreotypes
Four black and white photographs (daguerreotypes) in their original boxes. Each box has red fabric (possibly velvet or velveteen), a gold-colored frame (possibly real gold or gold gilt), with decoration on the outside of the box, and each has a small…
Handcrafted Wood Box
Handcrafted, wooden box c. 19th century. Box opens with the top lid, and contains several removable, wooden drawers and compartments. Sear Family attests that the box was handcrafted.
Photographs of "Burt" Fox, Hubert
![Photographs of "Burt" Fox, Hubert](https://historyharvest.unl.edu/files/square_thumbnails/38f52b8244797e5a22aa28074b59c4d7.jpg "Photographs of "Burt" Fox, Hubert")
Four black and white photographs of "Burt" Fox, Hubert. He is the one wearing the light-colored fur/feather chaps. In the photograph where he is on another man's shoulders, the second man has not been identified.