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Wyn Reddall, Quilt Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MS-0294

Scope and Contents The collection includes correspondence between Wyn Reddall and numerous quilters and quilt historians. It also includes correspondence from the American Quilt Studies Group (AQSG) office concerning quilt researchers, quilt organizations, authors, and others. The collection includes files concerning research about pieced-letter quilts and about a number of individual quilters. Finally, it includes newsletters, book announcements, and assorted quilt-related cards, photographs, calendars, and...

Dates: 1937-1999

Found in: Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

Xenia Cord, Quilt Papers

Collection — Box: 001

Identifier: MS-0287

Scope and Contents The materials include an article about "The Great Midwest Quilt Show and Sale," a booklet about the show that contains advice on how to buy an antique quilt. There are several publications produced for quilt shows and museum exhibits, with a catalog for the show "Marie Webster Quilts: A Retrospective," held at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1991. The collection contains a piece of centennial fabric from the back of an 1880s quilt.

Dates: 1880-1991

Found in: Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

Xi Delta, Student Life Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-38-04-96

Dates: 1976

Found in: Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

Xi Psi Phi, Student Life Records

Collection — Box: 007

Identifier: RG-38-04-70

Dates: 1930

Found in: Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

Y Group, Student Life Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-38-03-107

Scope and Contents The collection consists of two photo negatives showing Y group activities.

Dates: 1956, September 56

Found in: Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

YMCA of Greater Omaha Records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS-0039

Content Description The records of the YMCA of Greater Omaha include material from the organization’s founding in the 19th century through the 21st century. Material documenting board meetings from the 1880s to the early 21st century is nearly complete. Also included are: newsletters and newspapers, fundraising material, membership information, marketing material, photographs (bulk 1970s-1990s), scrapbooks, and a small amount of media formats including VHS videotapes. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings...

Dates: 1867-2013

Found in: University of Nebraska at Omaha Archives & Special Collections

Young America's Foundation, Nebraska Chapter, Student Life Records

Collection — Box: 001

Identifier: RG-38-03-25

Scope and Contents The materials include several copies of the YAF Nebraska Chapter newsletter "Upright."

Dates: -

Found in: Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

Young Democrats, Student Life Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-38-03-106

Scope and Contents The collection consists of five photo negatives showing members and activities of the Young Democrats.

Dates: 1952, October 25

Found in: Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), Student Life Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-38-03-01

Scope and Contents The collection includes correspondence, proposed programs, student handbooks, event programs, conference brochures, annual reports, newsletters, photographs, and member information from the University of Nebraska Lincoln's YMCA.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1888-1959

Found in: Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

[Young Woman] Diary, 1920-1924

Collection — Box: MISC-11, Folder: MSS-0082

Identifier: MSS-0082

Content Description Diary of a young woman from a privileged background writing in the first half of the 1920s. Topics covered in her diary entries include yacht clubs, dancing, parties, golfing, tennis, trips to New York and California, as well as other topics. Places mentioned include White Sulphur, New Brighton, Farmington, Rolling Rock, New York, Bellows Falls, and others. The diary begins on November 6, 1920, and continues through 1924. The diarist’s birthday is December 1st and she is 19 years old when she...

Dates: 1920-1924

Found in: University of Nebraska at Omaha Archives & Special Collections

[Young Woman] Papers, 1942-1944

Collection — Box: MISC-03, Folder: MSS-0057

Identifier: MSS-0057

Content Description The collection was created by an unidentified young woman and includes her diary with entries from January-July 1942 and six letters from January-February 1944. The diary begins with a brief recap of 1941 and continues to document the author’s interest in securing a civil service position in Washington, D.C. during World War II, working in government positions (including doing indexing) and the Observer newspaper, listening to President Franklin Roosevelt on the radio, and other facets of her...

Dates: 1942-1944

Found in: University of Nebraska at Omaha Archives & Special Collections

Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), Student Life Records

File — Multiple Containers

Identifier: RG-38-03-02

Scope and Contents The majority of the records deal with the internal workings of the Y.W.C.A. The materials contain correspondence, minutes of meetings, fiscal records, reports, and lists of officers. The papers also contain information on projects, circulars and brochures, programs, and articles. There are two manuscripts: one of Norma Kidd Green's book The First Seventy-Five Years, 1884-1959, of the Young Women's Christian Association of the University of Nebraska and a...

Dates: Majority of material found within 1886-1993

Found in: Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries