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Benjamin Franklin Thomas worked as an elephant tamer for the Van Amburgh Circus in the mid nineteenth-century. He wrote in his daybook regularly when he travelled.]]>2014-08-18T23:28:21+00:00
Title
Benjamin Franklin Thomas' Daybook: "Fancy" and "The Charge of the Iron Brigade"
Description
This page in the daybook includes poems and songs.
Benjamin Franklin Thomas worked as an elephant tamer for the Van Amburgh Circus in the mid nineteenth-century. He wrote in his daybook regularly when he travelled.
Creator
Benjamin Franklin Thomas
Source
Robert E. Smith, Lincoln History Harvest, 2014
Date
1862 circa
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Format
document
Type
image
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Benjamin Franklin Thomas worked as an elephant tamer for the Van Amburgh Circus in the mid nineteenth-century. He wrote in his daybook regularly when he travelled.
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Title
Benjamin Franklin Thomas' Daybook: Miscellaneous notes and Daily Locations of the Van Amburgh Circus
Description
This portion of Benjamin Franklin Thomas's Daybook contains miscellaneous notes and the distance traveled daily as well as the locations of the Van Amburgh Circus in 1860.
Benjamin Franklin Thomas worked as an elephant tamer for the Van Amburgh Circus in the mid nineteenth-century. He wrote in his daybook regularly when he travelled.
Creator
Benjamin Franklin Thomas
Source
Robert E. Smith, Lincoln History Harvest, 2014
Date
1862 circa
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Format
document
Language
English
Type
image
Coverage
United States
Text
Page on Right:
21. [Thursday] Philadelphia (PA) [illegible]
22. [Friday] Do
23. [Saturday] Do
24. [Sunday] Do
25. [Monday] Frankford (PA) - 5 miles
26. [Tuesday]
27. [Wednesday]
28. [Thursday]
29. [Friday] Phoenixville - 10 miles
30. [Saturday] West Chester (PA) - 14 miles
1. Sunday
2. [Monday] Parkersbourg [Parkesburg] (PA) - 14 miles
3. [Tuesday] Lancaster (PA) - 25 miles
4. [Wednesday] Columbia (PA) - 10 miles
5. [Thursday] Little York (PA) - [illegible]
6. [Friday] Hanover (PA) - [illegible]
7. [Saturday] Manchester (MD) - 12 miles
8. Sunday - "
9. [Monday] Baltimore (MD) - 30 miles
10. [Tuesday] Do - "
11. [Wednesday] Laurel (MD) - 15 miles
12. [Thursday] Washington (D.C.) - 18 miles
13. [Friday] Georgetown (D.C.) - [illegible]
14. [Saturday] Alexandria (VA) - [illegible]
15. Sunday - "
16. [Monday] [illegible] - 25 miles
17. [Tuesday] Fredericksburg (VA) - 25 miles
18. [Wednesday] Bowling (VA) - 22 miles
19. [Thursday] Ashland (VA) - 24 miles
[scratched out] 20. [Friday] Richmond (VA) - 15 miles
20. [Friday] Richmond (VA) - "
Do
Do
Do Do
Do
Original Format
book
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"Circuses" is a write up about the different circuses and small details about what they were up to. The date shown at the top is January 31, 1863 and Frank Thomas is mentioned as being an elephant tamer for the Van Amburgh Circus.
Below that article is a cut out of a song or poem named "Hymn of the Negro Worshipers." ]]>2014-08-18T23:28:39+00:00
Title
Benjamin Franklin Thomas' Daybook: Newspaper Cutouts
Description
Benjamin Franklin Thomas worked as an elephant tamer for the Van Amburgh Circus in the mid nineteenth-century. He wrote in his daybook regularly when he travelled. This item was contributed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln spring 2014 History Harvest.
"Circuses" is a write up about the different circuses and small details about what they were up to. The date shown at the top is January 31, 1863 and Frank Thomas is mentioned as being an elephant tamer for the Van Amburgh Circus.
Below that article is a cut out of a song or poem named "Hymn of the Negro Worshipers."
Creator
Benjamin Franklin Thomas
Source
Robert E. Smith, Lincoln History Harvest, 2014
Date
1862 circa
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
School photograph of children. Postcard includes names and ages written on the back. Kathleen J. Fleming (Cathy Maasdams mother) second from left in back row. Morse Bluffs, Nebraska (Grades 1-3) Public School District 14.
Source
Cathy Maasdam, Lincoln History Harvest, 2014
Publisher
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln History Harvest Project
Date
1933 circa
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Envelope addressed to Kathleen Fleming, March 1, 1940
Description
This envelope is addressed to Kathleen Fleming who was living in Norse Bluff, Nebraska. It is from Jessie Young, KMA Homemakers, Earl E. May Seed Company in Shenandoah, Iowa. It is stamped for March 1, 1940.
Creator
Earl E. May Seed Company
Source
Cathy Maasdam, Lincoln History Harvest, 2014
Date
1940-03-01
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Graduation Exercises Scroll from Hartington, Nebraska High School
Description
Scroll from the Hartington, Nebraska High School graduation of 1900 featuring Olive Felber. This document is very fragile and difficult to unfurl. This item was contributed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln spring 2014 History Harvest.
Creator
Hartington High School
Source
Cathy Maasdam, Lincoln History Harvest, 2014
Date
June 2, 1990
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
A copy of an original newspaper article covering the sinking of the SS Danmark. On April 5, 1889, heavy winds and high seas caused the ship to begin sinking on its voyage from Copenhagen to New York with 665 passengers, most of whom were women who intended to go to the West to marry or seek work as domestics. The cargo ship, SS Missouri rescued everyone from the ship.
Creator
New York Times
Source
Perry Severson, Lincoln History Harvest, 2014
Publisher
New York Times
Date
1880-04
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Relation
"Perry Severson Discusses the SS Danmark and His Family's History," http://historyharvest.unl.edu/admin/items/show/745
This white coat was worn by J.D. Clair Smith Jr., a young boy featured in another photograph. He was born in 1908 and his mother was Olive Felber Smith.
Source
Cathy Maasdam, Lincoln History Harvest, 2014
Date
1911 circa
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.