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Colored advertisement on card stock with hand-drawings and paintings for the Opera House Bar

Black and white postcard with photograph of the old Fort Kearney Hotel in Kearney, Nebraska

This 1918-1919 season pass allowed admission into all of Broken Bow High School's home football and basketball games in 1918-1919. The front of the object details the price of the pass and the publisher, while the back shows the high school's…

Full vitreous stoneware ink bottle from P & J Arnold of London, England. This was part of the Denby Pottery Company near Derby, England. Artifact's spout is broken and the lettering is worn, but upon further research the full label should…

Piece of brown stoneware found at the Dobytown, Nebraska site in 1989. Words present on the pipe are "derby" (top) and "& J. Arnold, London (bottom). Vessel most likely held ink. (See SAR story via link)

Original Letter from the Veterans Administration in Lincoln, Nebraska to Jimmy Ray White, formerly of Kearney, Nebraska. Jimmy Ray White served in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War and was father to Andy White. Jimmy passed away in 2004,…

Front and back of original veteran Certificate of Eligibility for Veteran's benefits. This certificate was issued to Jimmy Ray White, originally from Kearney, Nebraska, after his service in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War. Jimmy…

This memorandum was written by Václav Vilda, Robert Machacek's great grandfather. The story describes how Vilda family got to New Orleans in 1855, their journey to their new home in Wisconsin and when they arrived to Nebraska, including all obstacles…

This is a manifest of alien passengers of the S.S. Merion. Andreas (Andrew) Lutz and his family is listed, leaving the port of Liverpool on January 11, 1912 and arriving at the port of Philadelphia in January 23, 1912.

This is a census report from April 1913 that include the Lutz family.