Scope and Contents The Del Weber Papers comprise the files accumulated by Delbert Weber during his term as chancellor of the University of Nebraska at Omaha (1977-1997). The files include correspondence, reports, memos, meeting minutes, forms, and other print records of the operations of the University of Nebraska at Omaha as well as his service on community boards and community and a small amount of family material including audiovisual material. The paper files include material organized and described in...

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The collection includes minutes, programs, photographs, a University Union history, centennial banquet materials, and original works by society alumni.

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Contains news clippings, dance cards (about 1900), bylaws (1942), "Songs of Delta Delta Delta," (1942), and photographs of Delta Delta Delta Sorority.

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Contains news clippings, event programs, and photographs of chapter house and members of Delta Gamma Sorority.

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Contains news clippings, yearbooks (1929-1930), photographs of members and events of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, and event cards for Mother's Day (1923), 29th Annual Banquet (1923), and Squab Scramble banquet and dance (1923).

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Contains news clippings and photographs of Delta Upsilon Fraternity members and events.

Scope and Contents The correspondence and several research files relate to documentation work done for the Bayles Quilt (also spelt Bayless or Bayliss) held at the Dallas Historical Society. The majority of research materials are photocopies of articles and research sources related to a specific topic. Many of the research files include Church's handwritten notes and comments on the published articles. Types of items within the research files include correspondence, photocopies of published articles, research...

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The files are arranged alphabetically.

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The collection includes correspondence, committee information, minutes, reports, financial records, board of directors' records, information about sponsored activities, and printed materials such as newsletters and clippings.

Scope and Contents The papers consist of correspondence and radio transcripts created during Hollenbeck’s career with the NBC and the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). There are a few broadcasts from American Broadcasting Company (ABC). The programs include special broadcasts, along with Hollenbeck’s “War Journal,” “CBS Views the Press,” and “You are There.” Many of these were produced during World War II. There is a scrapbook and several 3 dimensional items.The collection is roughly arranged in...

Scope and Contents The photographic collection of Donald Watts is composed of slides and a few photographs from Watts' travels in Afghanistan in 1973 to early 1975 while a Peace Corps volunteer in Kabul. Subjects of the images include Balkh, Bamiyan, Band-I-Amir, Bost, Herat, Kabul, Istalif, Herat, Nuristan, and other cities, provinces, and sites. The slides are sorted by location or other topic. The photographs were identified as being about Kabul, Watts' residence in Kabul, children, Kochis, Peace Corps,...

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The correspondence in this collection detail inquiries about donating the Bettis oral history materials to the American Quilt Study Group. The collection includes typed transcriptions and 9 cassette tapes of an oral interview with Dorothy Bettis done by Glenna Brock between May and September 1988. There are also photographs of selected quilts created by Bettis, with detailed information on the quilts.

Content Description The papers of Dorothy Patach document her travels around the United States and international trips, her community involvement, and her career in nursing and nursing education. Documentation of Patach’s trips include scrapbooks, photographs, postcards, and ephemera from the 1930s to the late 20th century. Patach traveled throughout Nebraska and the Midwest, the West, and other parts of the U.S. There were many trips to California especially as her father worked in California for many years...

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The interview materials include subject files on individual quilters as well as 136 cassette tapes of interviews and speeches given at various quilting events. The subject files include biographical information and photos or slides of the interviewee, quilts they created or own, and correspondence with Dottie Moore.

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The Maxwell Papers document his work with the forestry service throughout Nebraska. The records include field notebooks, outreach booklets that Maxwell either edited or wrote, newspaper clippings, photographs of Maxwell and his work, and awards received for his service as a forester and professor of the University of Nebraska. The records also include items relating to Maxwell's interest in the poetry of James Whitcomb Riley.

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This collection contains mostly Ed Kopac's correspondence with different sources during his career as a Montana rancher and livestock feeder. Included in the correspondence are letters to senators, lawyers, and people in business with Kopac. There is correspondence concerning the Czech Pioneer Memorial and his contributions to that organization.

Scope and Contents The Brouse papers consist of agricultural photographs from the University of Nebraska Experiment Station in Valentine, Nebraska, experimental farms, and private ranches in Cherry and Holt counties, Nebraska, from the 1920s-1950s. The photographs document phosphorus treatment research on the growth of clover and other native grasses, cattle food experiments, a 1924 sand blow that occurred west of Thedford, Nebraska, and prairie landscapes. The photographs are arranged alphabetically by...

Scope and Contents The papers of Edith Abbott contain professional and personal correspondence, lecture notes for courses taught at the University of Chicago School of Social Administration (SSA), articles, the draft of the unfinished biography of Grace Abbott, and biographical materials. The papers reflect Edith's interests centered on the status of women in industry and the establishment of high professional standards in social work education. The papers of Grace Abbott contain personal and professional...

Content Description A scrapbook kept by white husband and wife Horace and Edith Hager on a road trip across the United States and briefly Canada in the mobile home trailer in 1948. The couple departed their New Jersey home pulling their new trailer they named "Ched." Edith or "Ede" and Horace or "Chap" along with their dog Candy are shown posing around the trailer in May 1948 before their departure. Photographs on their trip depict sites, people, animals, scenery, and other...

Scope and Contents The materials in this collection relate primarily to Schramm's career in economic geology, his business investments, and his activities as a faculty member at the University of Nebraska. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, which relates to oil and mining in the United States and Latin America. Letters from Schramm's former students contain information on their work in the oil and mining industries as well as military service and personal lives. Also included are...

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One photograph of a classroom, the "corner in Principal's room, 6th Street school" including E.H. Morgan, 4th grade.

Scope and Contents This collection contains the personal and professional papers of E.J. Faulkner, a leading Lincoln, Nebraska insurance executive.  The first two series are divided between personal and professional correspondence.  Personal papers include letters from family members, memorial and funeral notices, wedding announcements, and other items of a personal nature.  These sections date from the 1930s to the 1960s.  The earlier letters contain telling comments about reactions to Franklin Delano...