Biography

Scope and Contents The collection contains newsletters, reunion planning documents, directories, and biographical files related to the Alumni of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications. Newsletters were used by the College to solicit money, keep graduates up to date with events and news from the college, and document the accomplishments of alumni and faculty. Biographical files contain information on graduates' activities during their time as a student and in the years following their graduation....

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This collection consists of a typed reminiscence, "Lord Tennyson as I Knew Him," told by Mrs. Anna Wheeler Harris, 1917. The three-page manuscript describes Harris’s impression of Alfred Tennyson and some of her experiences working as a governess to his children. Also included is a half page of biographical information about Anna Wheeler Harris and her immediate family.

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The collection consists of "The autobiography of a civil engineer by John Cyprian Stevens, 1876-1960" written by the University of Nebraska alumnus in 1959-1960. The autobiography spans from his childhood memories to his military service, college days at UNL, his career as an engineer, and much in between.

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Photocopied typescript of family memoirs relating to homesteading in Nebraska after 1887. About 400 pages.