For the past 125 years, the Nebraska State Historical Society has been collecting and preserving photographs, maps, manuscripts, books, and other materials that document Nebraska's past. Here is a sampling of some of the treasures from the Library/Archives. To see museum treasures visit the Museum Treasures page.

Cheers for Miss Bishop script

Albert Lamborn Green drawings

Abdul-Baha Abbas visits William Jennings Bryan's Fairview

Nebraska Association names Beatrice, minute book

John Gregory Bourke photographs of Native Americans

Buffalo Soldiers photographs

Cheyenne Outbreak, the.Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun autobiographical account

Diamond Dick Tanner dime novels

Exaggeration postcards

Free School Advocate newspaper

Genoa Indian School documents

Frederick Blaine Humphrey photographs

John P. Falter sketch

Julius Meyer photographs

J. Sterling Morton creates Arbor Day, diary

Lilly B. Munroe photographs of West Point, Nebraska

Native American Baseball Teams photographs

Nebraska Territory map, about 1854

Otto Klima Collection photographs

Overland Emigrant photographs

Ozwald Ragan Black cartoons

Eli Ricker interviews Wounded Knee survivors, manuscript

Sheep Ranch photographs

American Volga Relief Society letters and documents

Wausa Nebraska booster postcards

Wild Bill Hickok court documents

Native American / Wild West Show contracts

 

To see museum treasures visit the Museum Treasures page..

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