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ABC Breakfast Lecture Series Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UNO-0102
Scope and Contents The ABC Breakfast Series comprises the print, audio, and video records of a lecture series organized by the University of Nebraska at Omaha, which ran from 1975 until 2006. At 31 seasons, it was among the longest-running speaker series in the United States. The ABC (Academy, Business, and Community) Breakfast Series brought in national-caliber speakers representing a variety of professional fields to Omaha for ticketed events held at hotels and convention centers. The number of speakers...
Dates: 1975-2006

American Indian Oral History and Omaha Folklore Project Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0018
Scope and Contents The American Indian Oral History and Omaha Folklore Project Oral History Collection contains oral history interviews of Native Americans in Omaha, Nebraska as well as interviews collected as part of a program called the Oral History Collection of the Omaha Folklore Project. The interviews cover the cultures and personal histories of interviewees in the U.S. as well as leaving Europe in the first half of the 20th Century. Topics of discussion include life in Omaha, World War I, the Great...
Dates: circa 1970-1980

Bing Chen Papers

 Collection — Box: 2017-027
Identifier: UNO-0111
Scope and Contents The Bing Chen Papers comprises materials related to Information Science and Technology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, covering the period from about 1971 until about 1996, with the majority of content concentrated in 1994 through 1995. This collection is closed to researchers. However, much of the content is duplicated in the Richard Flynn Information Science and Technology Collection and Dale Krane Engineering Collection, both of which are open without...
Dates: 1971-2013

Carl Jonas Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-0023
Scope and Contents The Carl Jonas Papers hold the works of Omaha, Nebraska, novelist Carl S. Jonas. The manuscript portion of the collection includes typed novels and works-in-progress with hand-written corrections, including two versions of a novel entitled The X Family, an incomplete draft of The Deer and the Antelope Play, and three incomplete, untitled novels.New material added 2015-10-29: The papers of Carl Jonas include manuscripts of his...
Dates: 1928-1976

Del Weber Awards and Honors Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UNO-0084
Scope and Contents The Del Weber Awards and Honors Collection contains various awards and honors bestowed upon Delbert D. Weber during his time as Chancellor of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1977-1997. The collection includes framed awards, certificates, photographs, artwork, and political cartoons; certificates in padded folders; wall plaques; desk plaques; medals and medallions; t-shirts, ball cap, Japanese cloth, Japanese paddles, and other artifacts; and an audio cassette recording of Del Weber's...
Dates: 1977-1997

Del Weber Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UNO-0094
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...
Dates: 1977-2016

Dottie Moore, Quilter Interviews

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-0322
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1994-2000

Eve Wheatcroft-Granick, Collection on Quilts

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0327
Scope and Contents

The collection contains materials on Wheatcroft-Granick's research and writings on Amish quilts and quilt-making. Included is correspondence, research materials and notes on the Amish, photocopied articles about the Amish, as well as a manuscript of a book on the Amish and Quilts. In addition there are some fabric samples, and cassette tapes of interviews with Joyce Brown and Sam Greenburg.

Dates: 1910-1967, 1980s

Exercise with Ernie

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: UNO-0202
Scope and Contents

The Exercise with Ernie exercise program developed by Physical Education professor Ernie Gorr includes a booklet and audiocassette tape.

Dates: 1983

Icarian Collection

 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

Jim Jacobi Papers

 Collection — Box: 2018-025
Identifier: MSS-0121
Content Description The collection of Jim Jacobi's music includes recordings of music under the band names Crap Detectors, Jojakimbi Band, and Jim Jacobi from the late 1970s to the 2010s. In addition to audio recordings on CD (29), digital copied from CD (5), and 1 audiocassette tape, the collection also includes the documentary Ex-Patriots from Reality: The Jim Jacobi Story A Garage Documentary. Jacobi's releases:2018 If only you had been paying attention (40 year anniversary) and Part 2...
Dates: 1993-2018

John Moran, Music Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG-57-08-08
Scope and Contents

John Moran, Music Papers includes correspondence, newspaper clippings and articles, concert and event programs including the Willa Cather Centennial Concert, photographs, Introduction to Symphonic Music course audiocassettes, and materials related to the University of Nebraska School of Music and All-State High School Fine Arts Courses summer program.

Dates: 1957-1984

Laurel Horton, Quilt Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0424
Scope and Contents The papers contain Laurel Horton's correspondence, interviews, publications, personal journals, quilt exhibition materials, quilt scrapbooks, conference and workshop presentations, American Quilt Study Group seminars, and quilt research materials including English, French, Swedish, African American quilts, and other research. Photographs and slide presentations include "Hands All Around," Archives of Appalachia presentation, 1991 trip to Ireland, "Quilts: The Irish Connection" presentation,...
Dates: 1972-2020

Lavender Couch Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-0124
Content Description

The records of Lavender Couch include fliers, posters, and photographs documenting the alternative rock, all-lesbian band's shows or gigs in Omaha, Lincoln, and other locales. Publicity photos and casual photos of band members are also available. A small number of contracts or agreements are part of the collection along with ephemera such as a sticker. A copy of the band's eponymous 1994 audiocassette tape is part of the collection.

Dates: 1993-1998

Lourdes Gouveia Papers

 Collection — Box: 1-23
Identifier: UNO-0234
Content Description Dr. Lourdes Gouveia gathered a considerable amount of information about Latino immigrants in the Nebraska meatpacking industry, particularly in Lexington, Nebraska, though also in other small Nebraska, Kansas, and Iowa communities. This collection reflects her efforts and consists of her research materials, data, and writings from the 1980s through 2016. Much of the collection covers Gouveia's research in Lexington, Nebraska during the 1990s. In Lexington, Gouveia studied the...
Dates: 1973-2011; Majority of material found within 1980-2010

Nancy Belck Investiture Records

 Collection
Identifier: UNO-0020
Scope and Contents The Nancy Belck Investiture Records are comprised of materials related to Nancy Belck's installation as Chancellor of the University of Nebraska at Omaha on April 17, 1998. The collection includes certificates of greetings and congratulations presented to Belck by representatives of other universities, a signed copy of the Southeastern Oklahoma State University Since 1909 book, records of the Investiture Committee, invitations, programs, publicity information, photographs, negatives,...
Dates: 1997-1998

Robert M. Spire Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UNO-0096
Scope and Contents The Robert M. Spire Papers comprise a large collection of papers, speeches, programs, writings, reports, articles, manuscripts, treatises, dissertations, correspondence, transcripts, files, poems, sheet music, audio cassettes, VHS video cassettes, photographs, awards, plaques, certificates, news clippings, pamphlets, ephemera, and various works by or in possession of Robert M. Spire. The collection covers his entire career, including his years of service on the University of Omaha Board...
Dates: 1963-1994

Shirley Goldstein Media Collection

 Collection — Box: 2018-059
Identifier: MSS-0131
Content Description

The collection of 54 audiocassette tapes, 11 microcassette tapes, and 2 VHS videotapes about Soviet Jewry was given to Glenn Richter by Shirley Goldstein. Richter provided descriptions of most of the audiocassette tapes at the time of the donation in 2018.

Dates: Circa 1972-2006

UN-L Budget Hearings Collection

 Collection — Box: All
Identifier: UNO-0095
Scope and Contents The UN-L Budget Hearings Collection contains material related to the October 1991 budget hearings at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln. The collection includes audio recordings of the hearings on cassette tape and loose reports, statements, correspondence, and other papers related to the budget. This collection has not yet been organized. In 1991, during a time of economic recession, Nebraska Governor Ben Nelson's budget granted significantly less funding than the University of Nebraska...
Dates: 1991

UNO Athletics Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UNO-0074
Scope and Contents The UNO Athletics Collection is comprised of an array of documents and other materials related to the intercollegiate athletics program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and its predecessor the Municipal University of Omaha. The records include media guides, game programs, scrapbooks, artifacts and memorabilia, selected trophies and awards, marketing and publicity material, and administrative records from circa 1924 to the present. Included are materials related to specific sports,...
Dates: 1920 - 2020

UNO Center for Public Affairs Research Records

 Collection
Identifier: UNO-0142
Scope and Contents The UNO Center for Public Affairs Research Records comprises the publications of the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Center for Public Affairs Research (CPAR, 1989 to present), under its current name and under its previous names, the Center for Applied Urban Research (CAUR, 1971-1989), the Center for Urban Affairs (CUA, 1968-1971), and the Urban Studies Center (USC, 1963-1968). Publications in the collection date from circa 1966 to circa 2018.All print publications have been...
Dates: 1966-2018

UNO College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UNO-0035
Scope and Contents The UNO College of Education Records comprise the organizational records (1965-2001) of and resources (1948-2004) used by the University of Nebraska at Omaha College of Education, including the Teacher Corps program (1970-1981). Teacher training resources include the School Building Construction Clinic books (1948), information about Nebraska schools, manuals, resource guides, handbooks, a card file of people and organizations, the Thinking About Thinking filmstrip series with...
Dates: 1948-2011

UNO Criss Library Records

 Collection — Box: UNO-0054-MISC
Identifier: UNO-0054
Scope and Contents The UNO Criss Library Records are comprised of materials produced by or used by the Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and its predecessors the University Library and the Eugene C. Eppley Library. The collection includes library annual reports (1995/1996-2001/2002); departmental annual reports (Acquisitions/Order, Reference, Circulation, Cataloging, and Secretary); purchase orders and accession lists (1939-1941); budget ledger (1939-1940);...
Dates: 1939-2014

UNO Department of Gerontology Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UNO-0101
Scope and Contents The UNO Department of Gerontology Collection comprises works produced by and resources used by the Gerontology Program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha from about 1975 until about 2010. It includes various research reports, conference proceedings, and programs; "Planning the Third Age" (1976) facilitator's manual, student worksheets, slides, and audio cassettes; "Celebrate: A Collection of Writings By and About Women" (serial, 1997-2010); audio cassette...
Dates: 1975-2010

UNO Media Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UNO-0021
Scope and Contents Staff may view an inventory of some items in the collection in the early 2000s in the staff view of this database. The UNO Media Collection includes audiovisual material related to the University of Nebraska at Omaha and its predecessor the University of Omaha, from circa 1950 to the present. Materials include both informal audio and video recordings of UNO events, UNO promotional/recruitment material, and formal radio and television programs produced by UNO Television, University...
Dates: 1950-2022

UNO Performing Arts Center Performance Recordings

 Collection
Identifier: UNO-0149
Scope and Contents The UNO Performing Arts Center Performance Recordings comprise over 550 audiocassette recordings of recitals and concerts performed at the Strauss Performing Arts Center at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, from circa 1978 until circa 2001. The facility was renamed to honor of the Willis A. and Janet S. Strauss in 1984. Many of the cassettes are labeled with the name of the performer (individual or group), instrument(s), date of performance, and list of pieces performed. Some cassettes...
Dates: 1978-2001

UNO School of Social Work Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UNO-0097
Scope and Contents The UNO School of Social Work Collection comprises the records and resources of the School of Social Work at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, from about 1975 until about 2010. The collection includes self-study reports from 1977, 1982, and 1989; an accreditation report from 1975, when the school was in danger of losing its accreditation; admission information and worksheets; an advisement handbook (1981); student handbooks (1976-1996); practicum manuals (1981 and 1985); Social Work...
Dates: 1975-2010

UNO Student Government Records

 Collection
Identifier: UNO-0053
Scope and Contents The UNO Student Government Records comprise the files, binders, and audio cassettes of the University of Nebraska at Omaha Student Government (UNO-SG). The collection includes materials that have not yet been arranged and described, including audio cassettes, minutes, budget information, bylaws, plans, committee information, agency information, reports, election information, and other miscellaneous information, from 1968/1969 through at least 1988/1989. The collection also includes the...
Dates: 1968-2014

Walter Bagley, Horticulture and Forestry Recordings

 Collection — Box: 001
Identifier: RG-08-10-18
Content Description

Audio recordings of a 1959 horticulture seminar, 1973 Open Space and Urban Growth Planning conference, and 1982 Tree Improvement Conference that took place in Lincoln, Nebraska. All materials were recorded by Walter Bagley.

Dates: 1959-1982

World Affairs Institute Lecture Series Collection

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Identifier: UNO-0103
Scope and Contents The World Affairs Institute Series comprises the print and audio records of the World Affairs Institute, a lecture series organized by the Municipal University of Omaha and its successor the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The institute ran from academic year 1947/1948 through 1971/1972. It was originally directed by William E. Daugherty, a professor of government at the University of Omaha. The institute featured a series of lectures on foreign affairs and policy issues. Speakers came...
Dates: 1947-1972