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    • Chimney Rock sketch

    • Chimney Rock sketch

    • Chimney Rock (Neb.); Geology--Nebraska; Rock formations; Nebraska Western Trails Project NSHS

    • Abstract About 35 million years ago, thick sediments carried by wind and streams began to cover the present Nebraska panhandle. Wind-deposited sediments in the form of ash originated with volcanic eruptions to the west. Volcanic activity and...
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    • Chimney Rock sketch

    • Chimney Rock sketch

    • Chimney Rock (Neb.); Geology--Nebraska; Rock formations--Nebraska; Nebraska Western Trails Project NSHS

    • Abstract About four or five million years ago the rate of erosion, especially by streams, exceeded the rate of deposition. This plain, which once was as high as the top of the Wildcat Ridge, began to erode away.
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    • Emigrant train camp illustration

    • Emigrant train camp illustration

    • Overland Trails--Description and travel; African American pioneers; Nebraska Western Trails Project NSHS

    • Abstract African Americans also made the journey westward. An 1849 gold seeker, John Banks, was in St. Joseph, Missouri, when he recorded this: ôAt the ferry I saw a colored man going to the land of gold prompted by the hope of redeeming a wife...
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    • American National Bank.

    • American National Bank.

    • Banks -- Nebraska -- Omaha -- 1880-1890; American National Bank (Omaha, Neb.) -- 1880-1890

    • Abstract American National Bank building, 107 S. 15th Street, Omaha, Nebraska.
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    • Union Pacific Engine No. 1157

    • Union Pacific Engine No. 1157

    • Railroad locomotives -- United States -- 1910-1920; Union Pacific Railroad Company

    • Abstract An 060 switch steam engine built in February 1887 for the Union Pacific. This photograph was likely taken about 1890 in Nebraska.
    • Western Trails
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Dresses; Overland Trails--Description and travel; Nebraska Western Trails Project NSHS

    • Abstract An 1849 dress. Advice to emigrants by Frederick Piercy: ôWith reference to clothing, I would say use any old clothes you may happen to have by youàAll that I have to recommend to the ladies is that they do not wear their dresses quite...
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    • Country Road

    • Country Road

    • Automobiles -- Nebraska -- 1910-1920; Hall County (Neb.) -- 1910-1920

    • Abstract An automobile negotiates a dirt road, ca. 1913.
    • Western Trails
    • Laguna, 1877

    • Laguna, 1877

    • Church decoration and ornament -- California; Pencil works; Drawings

    • Abstract An unfinished drawing of the interior of a church.
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    • Going Camping

    • Going Camping

    • Automobiles-- United States -- 1920-1930; Camping -- United States -- 1920-1930; Hall County (Neb.) -- 1920-1930

    • Abstract An unidentified couple appears in this undated photograph of an automobile loaded with what could be camping equipment. The woman is leaning up against the car with a folding wooden chair beside her.
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    • Unidentified Couple with Bicycles

    • Unidentified Couple with Bicycles

    • Bicycles & tricycles -- Nebraska -- Grand Island -- 1890-1910; Cycling -- 1890-1910; Costume -- United States -- History -- 1890-1910

    • Abstract An unidentified woman and man rest with their bicycles around the turn of the 20th Century. Cycling was an extremely popular pastime during this period in central Nebraska. This photograph is a part of the Max Egge Collection.
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    • Hunter for the Survey

    • Hunter for the Survey

    • Hunters -- West (U.S.); Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.); Photographic prints

    • Abstract An unknown man on horseback, carbine across the pommel of his saddle, who served as a hunter for the US Geological Survey expedition to Yellowstone in 1872.
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    • Chimney Rock register of contemporary visitors

    • Chimney Rock register of contemporary visitors

    • Chimney Rock (Neb.) ; Autographs; Nebraska Western Trails Project NSHS

    • Abstract As the Overland Trail travelers did at Forts Kearny and Laramie in the mid-1800s, todayÆs visitors to Chimney Rock can leave their names and their thoughts about the rock and their journey behind.
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    • Rifle of wagon boss

    • Rifle of wagon boss

    • Rifles; Tylee, Augustus A.; Nebraska Western Trails Project NSHS

    • Abstract Augustus A. Tylee, a wagon boss for the Russell, Majors & Waddell freighting firm of Nebraska City, poses armed for an 1866 portrait. Firearms were among the leading causes of accidental death and injury among emigrants. A trail diarist...
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    • 1733 Ranch in Nebraska

    • 1733 Ranch in Nebraska

    • 1733 Ranch (Neb.); Automobiles -- Nebraska -- 1920-1930; Travel -- Nebraska -- 1920-1930; Street signs -- Nebraska -- 1920-1930

    • Abstract Autos and unidentified passengers stand by the 1733 Ranch milepost in central Nebraska. The sign indicates that it is 1733 miles to San Francisco to the West, and 1733 miles to Boston to the East.
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    • Interior, Omaha National Bank

    • Interior, Omaha National Bank

    • Omaha National Bank (Omaha, Neb.) -- 1910-1920; Lantern slides -- Nebraska -- Omaha -- 1900-1910; Banks -- Nebraska -- Omaha -- 1910-1920

    • Abstract Bach office area with two men working in Omaha National Bank, Omaha, Nebraska, 17th and Farnam Streets. Also known as New York Life Building.
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    • Interior, Omaha National Bank

    • Interior, Omaha National Bank

    • Omaha National Bank (Omaha, Neb.) -- 1910-1920; Lantern slides -- Nebraska -- Omaha -- 1900-1910; Banks -- Nebraska -- Omaha -- 1910-1920

    • Abstract Back office area in Omaha National Bank, Omaha, Nebraska, 17th and Farnam Streets. Also known as New York Life Building.
    • Western Trails
    • Bayard H. Paine Family 1920 Travel Journal to Yellowstone National Park

    • Bayard H. Paine Family 1920 Travel Journal to Yellowstone National Park

    • Yellowstone National Park -- Description and travel; Automobile travel -- Nebraska; Automobile travel -- Wyoming; Paine family -- Journeys

    • Abstract Bayard H. Paine family travel with the families of Samuel C. Huston and Hudson D. Fowler by auto from Grand Island, NE to Yellowstone National Park in the summer of 1920. Includes descriptions of places visited and accounts of the...
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