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A machine that allowed you to record your voice onto a wax cylinder. The machine could also be hooked up to a typewriter.

A Adressograph instruction manual, a blank metal index card, and then a printed card with an address from Omaha, Ne. An Adressograph machine was used to mass send mail, the index card allowed the machine to use it for the number of mail items a…

These are Shadow boxes put together with photos, patches, medals, and pins from the time Wyman Nemecek served in the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) during World War Two. Wyman was a tail gunner and flew in forty-two missions in the South…

This is a flag that was flown over Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom in December 2012. The flag was flown by Wyman Nemecek's son-in-law, Major Jeremiah Guild. Guild flew a B1B Stealth Bomber and always flies with an American Flag.

This is a wooden model of a B24 Bomber that Wyman Nemecek and his crew flew during World War Two from 1943-1945.

These candy bar molds come from Carol Koehn’s family store on Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn, New York from the 1940’s. The chocolate was melted in a copper pot and poured into the candy bar molds. The name Koletty appears on the top of the bars similar…

The Big Bondeave dairy bottles held cream and milk from Marg Stoner’s (maiden name Pinkerton) family farm from the 1930’s and 1940’s that was located east of Chadron, Nebraska. The cream and milk was sold to local grocery stores (Miller’s, White’s,…

This quilt was made by Virginia Wahlstrom's grandmother when she was five years old. It was made in the early 1900's, and the quilt was made for her baby dolls.

This is a marriage certificate for Emily and Richard Van Patton. It is from 1866 and from Saronville, Nebraska. Emily was 26 and Richard was 33. These are the grandparents of Virginia Wahlstrom. She moved from Sutton, Nebraska in 1961 and in…

The image on the postcard shows a horse in the lower left hand corner.

Benjamin Franklin Thomas worked as an elephant tamer for the Van Amburgh Circus in the mid nineteenth-century.