Rose Garey Interview about a Grosmutters Doll Chest
Rose Garey shares the story of her family's "Grossmutters" doll chest with the History Harvest graduate student assistant Leslie Working. You can find this and other stories on the History Harvest YouTube Channel.
Rose Garey, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010
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Roxann Erikson Ellison; Custer County History Harvest, 2016.
On a family trip to their ancestor's hometown, Joe Nigro and his family photographed many sites in Carlentini and Siracusa, Sicily. This image shows many ruins within the city or Siracusa.
Russel Taylor's Homestead Application, May 20, 1913
Mr. Warren Taylor provided some homesteading documentation from his paternal grandfather, Russel Taylor. This is Russel Taylor's homestead application, approved for 160 acres of land near Cheyenne, Wyoming on May 20th, 1913. Wyoming had a large community of African American homesteaders, which was a motivation of Russel's to move. He hoped to farm the land, while also working as a school teacher. The land proved poor for farming, and Russel and his wife Henrietta later migrated to Omaha with a large portion of the African American community from Wyoming. For interviews and oral histories of this and other items please visit the History Harvest YouTube Channel.
Warren Taylor, North Omaha History Harvest, 2011
Russel Taylor's Letter to the Secretary of the Interior, September 19, 1913
Russel Taylor wrote a letter to the Secretary of the Interior, explaining his inability to build a house and make the proper improvements to his homestead land by the proper date, as required by law. Russel was a school teacher, as well as a farmer, and when his wife fell ill he was unable to keep up with all the tasks of homesteading. He wrote to the Secretary of the Interior inquiring if he could use the new law extending the improvement time to 12 months instead of six months, as he would have time once school was out of session. For interviews and oral histories of this and other items please visit the History Harvest YouTube Channel.
This Russian pipe belonged to Robert Wagner's grandfather who brought it with him when he came to the United States.
Robert Wagner Collection, Lincoln Germans History Harvest 2014
Ruth Brown, a popular jazz , pop and R&B musician, shown here performing at the Dreamland Ballroom, ca. 1949. Ruth Brown was one of many popular musicians to play at the Dreamland Ballroom during the 1940s and 1950s.
Dreamland Ballroom, North Omaha History Harvest, 2011
This is a photograph of the Salem Congregational Church at 9th and Charleston in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Sammlung von auserlesenen geistlichen Gesaengen, 1850 circa
Samuel L. Roberts' Civil War Discharged Record, January 31, 1864
The Civil War discharge records reveal a treasure of personal information about age, birthplace, appearance, and conduct of the soldier. Samuel L. Roberts was discharged twice, first in 1964 in Vicksburg, Mississippi to reenlist into the 15th Iowa Infantry Veteran Regiment, and then fully discharged in July 1865. Born in Ohio, but living in Indianola, Iowa in 1861, Roberts was only 18 when he enlisted. The 15th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment where he served was mustered in 1862, and was engaged in the Battle of Shiloh, and the Second Battle of Corinth, where the Confederate army captured Roberts and later exchanged him in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Despite the pledge upon parole "not to take arms again" he probably never quit the service and in 1864 participated in the Atlanta Campaign with the 15th Iowa. The document now belongs to Roberts' granddaughters Grace Emmett and Mary Ann Hessenflow. For interviews and oral histories of this and other items please visit the History Harvest YouTube Channel.
Grace Emmett and Mary Ann Hessenflow, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010