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A note from his grandaunt accompanies the folding cup brought in by Mr. Taylor. This is his great-grandmother’s folding cup that she used in the field while enslaved in Mississippi. This artifact would have been essential to his…

Mr. Taylor brought in this penny to the History Harvest to share with us, accompanied by a note from his grandaunt. This penny is a 'braided hair coronet'-style penny, dated 1840, and Mr. Taylor informed us that his great-great-grandmother held on to…

Slingsby Family Photograph

This is a photograph and postcard about the massive snowstorm that hit Dannenbrog, Nebraska in 1915.

This photo was taken circa 1905 of a family of seven outside their sod home.

The photograph is of Minny Cudmoore and her students. They are outside of the sod school house. Minny Cudmoore was Jacob Walters granddaughter and was Wilma Lorson French's grandmother.

This memento certificate was given to Vance Smith for his enlistment in the United States Army on December 10, 1917 in Omaha to serve as a mechanic in the First World War effort.

Large group picture of the men who were boosters in Kearney in the early nineteenth century. The photograph was taken by Solomon D. Butcher.

A cancellation stamp used by the Somerford post office. Somerford, a small township in Custer County, started its post office in the 1880's. Mail was discontinued to Somerford on March 31, 1910.

Song book in German