Photograph of a Woman
description: Portrait of an unknown woman.
source: Cathy Maasdam, Lincoln History Harvest, 2014
contributor: Cathy Maasdam
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format: person
type: image

White Coat, circa 1911
description: This white coat was worn by J.D. Clair Smith Jr., a young boy featured in another photograph. He was born in 1908 and his mother was Olive Felber Smith.
source: Cathy Maasdam, Lincoln History Harvest, 2014
date: 1911 circa
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type: image

Interview With Virginia Wahlstrom
source: Virginia Wahlstrom, Chadron State College History Harvest, 2014
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format: story
language: English
type: video
coverage: Dawes County (Neb.)

Envelope addressed to Kathleen Fleming, March 1, 1940
description: This envelope is addressed to Kathleen Fleming who was living in Norse Bluff, Nebraska. It is from Jessie Young, KMA Homemakers, Earl E. May Seed Company in Shenandoah, Iowa. It is stamped for March 1, 1940.
creator: Earl E. May Seed Company
source: Cathy Maasdam, Lincoln History Harvest, 2014
date: 1940-03-01
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format: document
type: image

Benjamin Franklin Thomas' Daybook: Miscellaneous notes and Daily Locations of the Van Amburgh Circus
description: This portion of Benjamin Franklin Thomas's Daybook contains miscellaneous notes and the distance traveled daily as well as the locations of the Van Amburgh Circus in 1860. Benjamin Franklin Thomas worked as an elephant tamer for the Van Amburgh Circus in the mid nineteenth-century. He wrote in his daybook regularly when he travelled.
creator: Benjamin Franklin Thomas
source: Robert E. Smith, Lincoln History Harvest, 2014
date: 1862 circa
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format: document
language: English
type: image
coverage: United States

Graduation Exercises Scroll from Hartington, Nebraska High School
description: Scroll from the Hartington, Nebraska High School graduation of 1900 featuring Olive Felber. This document is very fragile and difficult to unfurl. This item was contributed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln spring 2014 History Harvest.
creator: Hartington High School
source: Cathy Maasdam, Lincoln History Harvest, 2014
date: June 2, 1990
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format: Image
language: English
type: Document
coverage: Hartington, Nebraska

Children in Morse Bluffs, Nebraska
description: School photograph of children. Postcard includes names and ages written on the back. Kathleen J. Fleming (Cathy Maasdams mother) second from left in back row. Morse Bluffs, Nebraska (Grades 1-3) Public School District 14.
source: Cathy Maasdam, Lincoln History Harvest, 2014
publisher: The University of Nebraska-Lincoln History Harvest Project
date: 1933 circa
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format: document
language: English
type: image
coverage: Morse Bluffs (Neb.)

Benjamin Franklin Thomas' Daybook: "Fancy" and "The Charge of the Iron Brigade"
description: This page in the daybook includes poems and songs. Benjamin Franklin Thomas worked as an elephant tamer for the Van Amburgh Circus in the mid nineteenth-century. He wrote in his daybook regularly when he travelled.
creator: Benjamin Franklin Thomas
source: Robert E. Smith, Lincoln History Harvest, 2014
date: 1862 circa
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format: document
type: image

Newspaper Article about SS Danmark Shipwreck
description: A copy of an original newspaper article covering the sinking of the SS Danmark. On April 5, 1889, heavy winds and high seas caused the ship to begin sinking on its voyage from Copenhagen to New York with 665 passengers, most of whom were women who intended to go to the West to marry or seek work as domestics. The cargo ship, SS Missouri rescued everyone from the ship.
creator: New York Times
source: Perry Severson, Lincoln History Harvest, 2014
publisher: New York Times
date: 1880-04
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relation: "Perry Severson Discusses the SS Danmark and His Family's History," http://historyharvest.unl.edu/admin/items/show/745
format: document
language: English
type: image

Benjamin Franklin Thomas' Daybook: Newspaper Cutouts
description: Benjamin Franklin Thomas worked as an elephant tamer for the Van Amburgh Circus in the mid nineteenth-century. He wrote in his daybook regularly when he travelled. This item was contributed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln spring 2014 History Harvest. "Circuses" is a write up about the different circuses and small details about what they were up to. The date shown at the top is January 31, 1863 and Frank Thomas is mentioned as being an elephant tamer for the Van Amburgh Circus. Below that article is a cut out of a song or poem named "Hymn of the Negro Worshipers."
creator: Benjamin Franklin Thomas
source: Robert E. Smith, Lincoln History Harvest, 2014
date: 1862 circa
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format: document
language: English
type: image