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Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-0280
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The photo postcards were produced by the Hispanic Society of America in the 1920s as curators traveled throughout Latin America, Portugal, and Spain.The images document places, culture, landmarks, industry, and daily life. Both rural and urban scenes are included. Each postcard contains brief information about the location, but none of the photographs are dated. Those taken in Spain were photographed by E.M. Newman.
Dates:
1921-1928
Collection — Box: 001
Identifier: RG-08-08-00
Scope and Contents
This collection contains general materials, yearbooks and photographs that pertain to the Agronomy Department and the Agricultural Experiment Station.
Dates:
1920-1990
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: UNO-0041
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The Hollie Bethel collection includes materials related to Dr. Hollie Bethel's life in education. She served as a professor of Teacher Education at the University of Nebraska at Omaha from about 1953 until 1977. The collection includes two photo albums which cover her life from the age of four weeks to the last years of her life (1913-1998); loose photographs; and photocopies of plaques.
Dates:
1913-1998
Collection — Box: 001
Identifier: RG-38-03-97
Scope and Contents
Home Economics Club, Student Life Records consists of photo negatives and prints of group portraits of the Home Economics Club, the club's president, and home economic deans from 1953-1955.
Dates:
1953-1955
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-00-13-00
Scope and Contents
The collection includes general information, minutes, programs, press releases, lists, and correspondence related to University of Nebraska Honors Convocations and other special Convocations (Centennial) arranged chronologically.
Dates:
1929-present
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-12-10-19
Collection — Box: 001
Identifier: RG-38-06-16
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-0026
Scope and Contents
The Icarian Collection consists of court documents, correspondence, and other material created by the Icarian community in Corning, Iowa in the 19th century along with research material created and collected by UNO Sociology professors Wayne Wheeler and Mark Rousseau. The documents created by the Icarian community in the 19th century were received from multiple donors, including a descendant of Frank M. Davis, an attorney who worked on the community’s legal case. The research material...
Dates:
circa 1819-1989
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-0090
Content Description
The records of the Imperial Court of Nebraska (ICON) include photographs, albums documenting twelve of ICON’s reigns, newsletters, programs for the annual coronation, and one binder containing other ICON documents such as copies of incorporation documents, correspondence, and other material. The photographs are largely unidentified and require arrangement and description. The albums for twelve of ICON’s reigns include programs, fliers, news clippings, photographs, and other material...
Dates:
circa 1980-2017
Collection
Identifier: RG-38-04-56
Scope and Contents
The majority of the materials deals with organization and activities of the Innocents Society and includes correspondence, meeting minutes, constitution and revisions, by-laws, and officer lists. The records document homecoming displays and events, programs, and participation in Innocents Society traditions, such as the sale of Freshman beanies or caps. There are several folders that relate to the activities of the Innocents Alumni Association. The majority of photgraphs are black and white...
Dates:
1903-1977
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-08-00-00
Scope and Contents
This collection contains general materials pertaining to the College of Agriculture. Some types of materials include reports, publications, programs, photographs and postcards, scrapbooks and assorted materials from the College of Agriculture. Box four is mostly assorted photographs from different departments of the College of Agriculture from the 1940's-60's.
Dates:
1892-1997
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-23-15-08
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of stereopticon slides showing images related to the history of education from ancient to modern cultures. An additional inventory of slides is available.
Dates:
1915
Collection — Box: 001
Identifier: RG-38-03-03
Scope and Contents
The collection consists mostly of informational brochures about the organization. Limited correspondence, the constitution, official charter, 17 photo negatives, and newspaper clippings are also included.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1949-1979
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-38-05-05
Collection
Identifier: RG-38-04-104
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1913-1954
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-11-04-06
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of Ivan Wood's photographs showing Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) projects in Nebraska. The photographs document the labor of the CCC, including erosion control, dam building, and terracing in Buffalo, Harlan, Johnson, and Pawnee counties, Nebraska, from 1933-1935. The photograph index is based on the descriptions written on the back of each photograph.
Dates:
1934-1935
Collection
Identifier: RG-12-07-13
Scope and Contents
The Weaver Papers consist of original publications and reprints of articles written by Weaver. The majority of the publications focus on prairie grasses and grassland climates and include topics such as the composition, degeneration, and regeneration of prairie grasses, the effects of drought and cattle on grasslands, and the root development of midwestern grasses. The papers also contain several bibliographies of Weaver's work, biographical materials, and photographs of Weaver and selected...
Dates:
1917-1963
Collection
Identifier: MS-0283
Scope and Contents
Photographs taken by J. Patras in France and surrounding areas during World War I. The photographs illustrate areas of France affected by the war, soldiers in camps and bunkers, cemeteries and burials, hospitals, churches and trenches.This collection contains black and white photographs of war scenes in France during World War I. The photographs are arranged according to the group name and number assigned to them by the creator. Group B contains images of Allied cemeteries and a...
Dates:
1916-1918
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-0338
Scope and Contents
J. Robert "Bob" Kerrey, Congressional Papers include press materials from Bob Kerrey’s Senate career. Also include press materials from his time as Nebraska’s Governor and his Presidential campaign.
Dates:
1989-2000
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UNO-0144
Scope and Contents
The Jack Newton Papers comprise the paper files of Dr. John Milton "Jack" Newton, longtime professor of psychology (1960-1999) who served as Dean of Arts and Sciences (1974-1994) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. These file folders, envelopes, and loose papers have not yet been further arranged or described.New material added 2010: "Random Memories of People & Experiences at OU/UNO," written by College of Arts & Sciences Dean Emeritus...
Dates:
circa 1960-2010
Collection
Identifier: MS-0461
Scope and Contents
Jack Plasters, WWII Military records contains Plaster’s diploma, photos, and World War II military patches and pins. Also included are several scrapbooks documenting Plaster’s 50th high school reunion and his experience in the U.S. Navy while stationed on the U.S.S. Baltimore and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii during World War II.
Dates:
1940-2002; Majority of material found within 1940-1947
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-57-09-03
Collection
Identifier: RG-12-22-10
Scope and Contents
The papers include correspondence regarding criminal cases that Reinhardt worked on as a consultant or that he researched, as well as correspondence with convicts. Included in the convict correspondence are letters from Charles Starkweather. Also in the collection are research materials and notes, publications, memorabilia and awards presented to Reinhardt during his career. Of special note is an autographed picture of J. Edgar Hoover.
Dates:
1924-1974
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-0128
Scope and Contents
The Metzger collection contains materials pertaining to the career of James Metzger, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln alum. During this career, Metzger served as a superintendent of a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp, private businessman and USAID advisor based out of Turkey and Jordan. The materials include correspondence, bulletins, photographs and an autobiography of Metzger's life and works.
Dates:
1929-1966
Record Group
Identifier: RG-05-25-00
Collection — Box: 001
Identifier: MS-0340
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the materials Sloup collected during service in WWII. Materials include biographical information, correspondence, records and a scrapbook. The scrapbook is of particular interest in that it contains many photographs of Sloup’s post in the Aleutian islands. These photos depict both military equipment and duties but also provide an insight into life in the barracks.
Dates:
circa 1943
Collection
Identifier: MS-0486
Scope and Contents
The papers include Dunnewold's notebooks with design ideas and notes, awards, correspondence, publications by or featuring Dunnewold, newspaper clippings, and art exhibition catalogs and fliers. Also included are handmade artbooks, designs, newsletters, and photographs of Dunnewold’s work
Dates:
1973-2020
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: APAC-0020
Content Description
The papers of Jane Willard document her experiences in an experimental program that combined one of year of Teacher Corps in Lackawanna, New York, and two of Peace Corps service. She attended graduate school at Buffalo State College, SUNY and learned Dari. In Afghanistan she was assigned as an English teacher at the Helmand Arghandab Construction Unit (HACU) outside of Lashkargah in Helmand province. Her students were adult men who were accountants, engineers, and warehouse personnel. The...
Dates:
1972-1974, 2022
Collection — Box: MISC-06, Folder: MSS-0101
Identifier: MSS-0101
Content Description
The photo album and loose photographs document the post-World War II occupation of Japan through over 150 personal and purchased photographs. The creator of the albums was a white man in the U.S. Army and while most of the photographs appear to be from occupied Japan, the Philippines and California are also seen. In addition to the photographs still attached in the photo album with some description and identification there are also many loose photographs, including some photos removed from...
Dates:
1946
Collection — Box: 2020-025
Identifier: APAC-0016
Content Description
The papers of Jean Heringman Willacy document her interest and travel in Afghanistan beginning in 1967 along with her work supporting Afghan refugees after the Soviet invasion. The collection includes photographs, slides, and digital copies of slides donated to the Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University along with drawings by Afghan refugee children about their war experiences, a speech for Save the Children, postcards, pamphlets, booklets, reports, newsletters, correspondence, calendars...
Dates:
circa 1960-1998