Nebraska -- Description and travel

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...

Scope and Contents The Artifacts series contains 1,053 framed items and objects collected by Chuck Hagel between 1967 and 2016 as Deputy Administrator at the Veterans Administration, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of Defense, and in his years outside of public service. Each artifact is described individually. Artifacts are divided into 21 sub-series. Artifacts include artwork...

Scope and Contents A rich set of daily schedules and appointment books brings us into Senator Hagel's busy life on and off Capitol Hill. The daily schedules, 55 cubic feet, cover his twelve years in the U.S. Senate. Schedules include entries on his meetings, public and private events, speeches, interviews, trips to every corner of Nebraska, travel outside the United States, and his personal life. Hagel’s meetings and events were wide-ranging and associated with committee work, legislation, senate hearings,...

Scope and Contents The WPA Records are drafts and research notes used for the planned books and pamphlets produced by the Omaha office of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Writers' Project (FWP), including the never published Omaha City Guide. The records, dated 1935-1943, are 14.52 cubic feet and housed in 44 boxes. Note that the Works Progress Administration was renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) The bulk of the papers are typescript, with a few...