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Suzette LaFlesche, also known as Princess "Bright Eyes" was the daughter of "Iron Eye" LaFlesche, chief of the Omaha Native American tribe. One of the first women to attend the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, she died 7 June 1903.

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A framed portrait of three women with ruffled shawls. Caroline Felber is in the middle and Marcella Browne is on the right. The woman on the left is unknown. The portrait was taken around 1899 in Hartington, Cedar County, Nebraska.

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The image on the postcard shows a horse in the lower left hand corner.

Benjamin Franklin Thomas worked as an elephant tamer for the Van Amburgh Circus in the mid nineteenth-century.

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Portrait of brothers Robert Harrison and Walter Fleming taken at a studio in North Bend, Nebraska in the early 1890's.

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A photograph on a postcard of Robert Harrison Fleming in a hat and suit circa 1911.

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This is the front and back of a dollar, which is likely part of a short snorter, from the Eugene Sengstake collections. This collection is donated by Eugene Wagner Sengstake Jr. A short snorter is a banknote which was signed by various persons…

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This telegram was sent by Ruth Sengstake to the Commonwealth of Australia, where her husband Eugene Sengstake Sr. was stationed at the time.

Eugene Wagner Sengstake Sr. of Lincoln, Nebraska, served in the 110th Medical Regiment and later as a…

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Ten new $.06 cent stamps from the United States of America - Air Mail. With a red background and a B-29 airplanes on them.

Eugene Wagner Sengstake Sr. of Lincoln, Nebraska, served in the 110th Medical Regiment and later as a B-24 pilot.…

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This ring is a Von Seggern family heirloom.
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