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Ms. Eickhoff shared the homestead, timber claim, and citizenship papers of her great-grandfather with UNL History Harvest graduate student assistant Rob Voss. You can find this and other stories on the History Harvest YouTube Channel.

Ms. Eickhoff shared the story of her great-grandfather with UNL History Harvest graduate student assistant Rob Voss. You can find this and other stories on the History Harvest YouTube Channel.

Education has long been a key to African American community uplift in Omaha and across the Great Plains, despite the pervasive reality of segregation and discrimination. Black parents, students and their allies have consistently pressed for greater…

The document outlines the life of Santa Lucia, being born noble to taking a vow of chastity and journeying with her mother to pay homage to Saint Agata's tomb where her mother was cured. Santa Lucia eventually became the patron saint of Carlentini,…

An earlier family photo of the Stier family.

A group photo of the Stier family around 1926. Henry and Alex are in the back, and Sam, ?, and Marie are in the front.

These photographs were brought into the Custer County History Harvest 2016 by Linda Sterner-Hanson. Information about the photographs is featured in the image of the backs.

Here is a photograph brought into the Custer County History Harvest 2016 by Linda Sterner-Hanson.

A Statement of Facts filed by George Schneider for he and his family to become naturalized US citizens. He resided in Gering, NE at the time of filing.

Postcard showing the State Normal School of Kearney, Nebraska, c. 1910. The State Normal School opened in 1905 and is now the University of Nebraska at Kearney. The postcard is addressed to Mr. Lon Caldwell of Elgin, Nebraska.