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This post-World War I foxtrot is about a person looking for a “sweetie” who would, “Buzz around me like a Bumble Bee”. The lyrics mention being blue and suffering sleepless nights, “Regretting the day that I was…

This is a newspaper article about Lydia Loos of German Russian descent, and the challenges she faced while raising 12 boys and girls during the War.

An article from the Lincoln Journal-Star describing the Grand Grocery, one of Lincoln's first retail food centers. It was built in 1872 on the corner of 10th and P streets and was purchased by Marian and Henry Stier in 1935.

A brief description on the immigration of Germans from Russia to Lincoln, NE. Mentions Hattie Plum William''s "A Social Study of the Russian German" and lists where they settled in Lincoln, NE.

A collection of news articles published by the Nebraska State Journal detailing the end of World War II.

This 2004 limited-edition plate commemorated the Pioneer Zephyr, the diesel-powered streamline train that set the long-distance non-stop railroad record by running the 1015 miles from Denver to Chicago in 785 minutes on May 26, 1934. Across Nebraska…

Charles Mellon gave this mechanical coin bank to the Otoe County museum so that generations of children could continue to enjoy a hundred-year-old toy. Mechanical coin banks were a post-Civil War American invention, popular among Victorians because…

An article from the Lincoln Journal-Star detailing the donation of a caboose from Union Pacific to the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia.

This is a tea cup and saucer owned by Cathernie Berg and given to Sonya Jacobsen. On the cup it says ""Lev Lykkelig"" which mean ""Live Happily"".