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This 1917 “cabaret song hit”, was written and composed by Maceo Pinkard of “Sweet Georgia Brown” fame. Janice Cleary who owns this amazing collection, informs us Pinkard was a booking agent in Omaha before he moved on to New…

A collection of stories of the Czech and German settlers of the DuBois area. Published by the Pawnee County Historical Society on the 100th Anniversary of the foundation of Nebraska Territory.

This Czech national cookbook is a guide that includes recipes to traditional Czech dishes ranging from the simple to the gourmet. It also includes pages on which a reader has added his or her own recipes.

A photograph of the Custer County Golden Jubilee Rodeo-Fair of 1931. The photograph was taken at the fair by Lucky Dedmore of North Platte.

A scrapbook of students at Dannebrog's school.

Lucile Grim and Grant Merrit were engaged to be married on June 28, 1941. On the Wednesday before the wedding, June 25, 1941, Grant died after a car accident. Instead of the wedding, Grant's funeral was held on the day of the wedding. Lucile received…

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.

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.

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.

This handwritten letter was sent from Lieutenant Chase E. Dibble to Captain James P.V. Niell at Fort Kearney, Nebraska on October 17th, 1866 regarding receipts for Quarter Master's property. The letter predates Nebraska's statehood, and was…