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Portrait of the Fleming family featuring Walter and Julia Fleming, and their children: Mort, Ada, Walter Jr, Allen, and Robert. The date of this portrait is unknown.

Portrait of JD Clair Smith Jr, son of JD Clair and Olive Felber Smith taken in 1911 in Hartington, NE.

This item is a silk flag that was hanging at the First Plymouth Church in Lincoln, Nebraska. There are blue stars with names of those from the church who served in World War I written on them.

These pages include information on the money Benjamin Franklin Thomas spent. There is also an illegible newspaper article that he pasted on the right page.

Benjamin Franklin Thomas worked as an elephant tamer for the Van Amburgh Circus in the mid…

This page in the daybook includes poems and songs.

Benjamin Franklin Thomas worked as an elephant tamer for the Van Amburgh Circus in the mid nineteenth-century. He wrote in his daybook regularly when he travelled.

A copy of an original newspaper article covering the sinking of the SS Danmark. On April 5, 1889, heavy winds and high seas caused the ship to begin sinking on its voyage from Copenhagen to New York with 665 passengers, most of whom were women who…

Benjamin Franklin Thomas worked as an elephant tamer for the Van Amburgh Circus in the mid nineteenth-century. He wrote in his daybook regularly when he travelled. This item was contributed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln spring 2014 History…

This portion of Benjamin Franklin Thomas's daybook documents the distance traveled daily and the locations of the Van Amburgh Circus in May, June, July, and August of 1860.

Benjamin Franklin Thomas worked as an elephant tamer for the Van Amburgh…

These trifocal glasses as shown in the photos worn by Palmer Wall were created by Dr. Lewis C. Rathbun of Oelwein, Iowa. Rathbun also made tools for the Chicago Great Western Railroad. This item was contributed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln…

Benjamin Franklin Thomas worked as an elephant tamer for the Van Amburgh Circus in the mid nineteenth-century. He wrote in his daybook regularly when he travelled.