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This pop bottle purchased by Ellen Mortensen came from the Broken Bow Bottling Company.

This 1899 photograph of the Alex Pirnie's daughters was brought into the Custer County History Harvest by Kevin Cooksley.

Report of Transfer or Discharge for Jimmy Ray White. This particular report was for an Honorable Discharge. Jimmy, originally from Kearney, Nebraska, served in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War and was father to Andy White. Jimmy passed away…

Survey map of Buffalo County, Nebraska created in 1978.

Unused colored postcard from the Covered Wagon Souvenir Stand that used to be west of Kearney, Nebraska

Colored postcard showing the Midway Hotel and the Soldier's Monument dedicated to those who served in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. The Midway Hotel burned down, but the monument still stands in Kearney. The Midway Hotel was named for…

Colored postcard depicting downtown street (now Central Ave.) in Kearney, Nebraska. To the left, the old post office is visible, which exists today as the Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA).

This certificate declares Václav Karel's intention to become a citizen of the United States and to renounce allegiance to the Austrian Empire.

Václav Karel's application for U.S. citizenship. He renounced all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign Prince, Potentate, State, or Sovereignty, and particularly to Franz Joseph I of Austria.
The certificate also describes Václav's current…

A clothespin inherited by Doris Gill. The handmade clothespin, made by her great grandfather C.R. Luce, received third place for "unique wood article" at the state fair in the 1930's.