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This is the patent granted to Leland Nelson of Custer County, Nebraska. Nelson's patent, for a bale loader he designed, is one of a few patents granted to residents of Custer County.

The document is an official certification from the United States Post Office Department, Horace Maynard as Post Master General, of the appointment of James Boggs to the position of postmaster in the town of Elton in Custer County, Nebraska.

A postmaster certificate granted to Alice E. Grint for the Phillipsburg post office. Phillipsburg was a small community in Custer County that existed in the late nineteenth century.

The Civil War discharge records reveal a treasure of personal information about age, birthplace, appearance, and conduct of the soldier. Samuel L. Roberts was discharged twice, first in 1964 in Vicksburg, Mississippi to reenlist into the 15th Iowa…

This letter from the War Department to Ruth Sengstake documents the Department's shipment of Eugene Sengstake's personal effects to Ruth.

Eugene Wagner Sengstake Sr. of Lincoln, Nebraska, served in the 110th Medical Regiment and later as a B-24…

Handcrafted, wooden box c. 19th century. Box opens with the top lid, and contains several removable, wooden drawers and compartments. Sear Family attests that the box was handcrafted.

Four black and white photographs (daguerreotypes) in their original boxes. Each box has red fabric (possibly velvet or velveteen), a gold-colored frame (possibly real gold or gold gilt), with decoration on the outside of the box, and each has a small…

This is a census report from April 1913 that include the Lutz family.

This is a manifest of alien passengers of the S.S. Merion. Andreas (Andrew) Lutz and his family is listed, leaving the port of Liverpool on January 11, 1912 and arriving at the port of Philadelphia in January 23, 1912.

This memorandum was written by Václav Vilda, Robert Machacek's great grandfather. The story describes how Vilda family got to New Orleans in 1855, their journey to their new home in Wisconsin and when they arrived to Nebraska, including all obstacles…