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

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Humorous postcard meant to illustrate how fertile Nebraska's farmland was. Photograph has been altered by Solomon D. Butcher in order to make the potatoes in the cart look gigantic.

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Postcard with black and white photograph of the damage left by a tornado that went through Kearney, Nebraska on June 6, 1908.

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Blank postcard with an image of the old Midway Hotel that used be located near downtown Kearney, Nebraska.

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An original, metal lock found at Fort Niobrara by Merwyn Henderson. The Lock reads "Eagle Lock Co. Terryville, CT, U.S.A." The patent number is FEB 25 1896.

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This framed photograph was brought to the harvest by Carol and Ken Fritzler of Broken Bow, NE

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Postcard, with black and white photograph of Kearney's Opera House taken by Solomon D. Butcher. It is addressed to Miss Lillian Hooper of Grand Island, Nebraska.

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Colored postcard of the old Kearney, Nebraska Opera House. It is addressed to Mrs. M.B. Clapsattle of Bagley, Iowa.

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Colored postcard of the old City Hall of Kearney, Nebraska. Postcard is blank. On the back it says "Made in Germany."

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Colored postcard showing the Midway Hotel and the Soldier's Monument dedicated to those who served in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. The Midway Hotel burned down, but the monument still stands in Kearney. The Midway Hotel was named for…
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