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This video is an account of Lori Larsen explaining what she brought to the Dannebrog History Harvest.

This is a promotional photo of legendary jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong, Armstrong addressed the photo to Jimmy Jewell, owner of the Dreamland Ballroom. The inscription reads: My Best wishesTo “Jimmy” A “Fine…

You can find this and other stories on the History Harvest YouTube Channel.

Electric Slide projector, uses light bulbs and glass slides. Instructions for use are in German and English.

A photograph of mail carrier wagons stopped in Clearwater, Nebraska. The people shown in the photograph are as follows:
first from left: Jessie Mitchel's father
second from left: Walter (Walt) Snider
third from right: Stanley Heminway
second from…

Printed on May 30, 1865 in Washington D. C. General Sherman gave out Special Field Orders, No 76 to all the men in his army as a commemoration of their wartime record. The document bears the badges of the Union Army Corps XII, XIV, XV, XVII, and XX.…

Two mammoth teeth found by Merwyn Henderson near the Platte River in a gravel pit south of Kearney, Nebraska.

This is an image of a "Man of the Week" article that was published in the Omaha Star. The caption reads, "Mr. Jessie F. Shields, popular South Omahan, of 5307 South 28 Street, is our "man of the Week." He is a member of Mt. Olive Baptist Church. He…

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.