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    • Nebraska Stories: Episode 101 (Full Program)

    • Nebraska Stories: Episode 101 (Full Program)

    • Nebraska Stories Episode 1 video television tv full program episode special magazine Bucklin Artist Grimm Vanderpool Lieutenant Colonel Lt Col Adams Lane Cattle Rancher Foreman Nation Maddux Sibbit Historian Carter Poet Laureate Ted Kooser Lavicky...

    • This episode includes: Fantasia in Clay, Cowgirl Up, Nebraska's Tuskegee Heroes, The Blizzard of 1949, Two Convicts in a Haystack, and Blizzard Voices of 1888.
    • Nebraska Stories: The Blizzard of 1949 (Episode 101 Clip)

    • Nebraska Stories: The Blizzard of 1949 (Episode 101 Clip)

    • Nebraska Stories The Blizzard of 1949 video television tv segment clip special magazine Bucklin Cattle Rancher Foreman Nation Maddux Sibbit Historian Carter NE story Great Plains state people history historic historical event events life snow storm...

    • Segment from Episode 1
      Like the Dust Bowl, with its blinding black winds that lasted for years, or the biblical plague of locusts, the 1949 blizzard raged from January through the spring. The monumental drifts it left in its wake finally...
    • Nebraska Stories: Nebraska's Tuskegee Heroes (Episode 101 Clip)

    • Nebraska Stories: Nebraska's Tuskegee Heroes (Episode 101 Clip)

    • Nebraska Stories Nebraska's Tuskegee Heroes video television tv segment clip special magazine Bucklin Colonel Lt Col Adams Lane NE story Great Plains Alabama state people history historic historical idea ideas event events life African-American...

    • Segment from Episode 1
      Before 1940, African Americans were barred from flying for the U.S. military. But in 1941, an Army Air Forces (formerly Army Air Corps) program was started in Tuskegee, Alabama to train African Americans to fly and...
    • Nebraska Stories: Two Convicts in a Haystack (Episode 101 Clip)

    • Nebraska Stories: Two Convicts in a Haystack (Episode 101 Clip)

    • Nebraska Stories Two Convicts in a Haystack video television tv segment clip special magazine Bucklin Poet Laureate Ted Kooser Lavicky Hrnicek NE story Great Plains Dwight Lincoln state people history historic historical event events life blizzard...

    • Segment from Episode 1
      A story told by Ted Kooser (Garland, NE), John Lavicky, and Herb Hrnicek (Dwight, NE). In one of the many snow storms that struck the Great Plains in 1949, two convicts of the penitentiary in Lincoln escaped and walked to...
    • The Creightons: Building The Dream (Full Program Replay)

    • The Creightons: Building The Dream (Full Program Replay)

    • The Creightons Building The Dream video television tv full program episode documentary historical historic history Maryott Historian Wishart Jacobs Snoddy President Reverend Rev Schlegel Mihelich State Society Carter Lauritzen Edward Ed James John...

    • Their family name is part of the Omaha, Nebraska landscape and forever linked to the nationally recognized Creighton University campus. But, who were these immigrant men and women who scratched out a life in the United States and realized the...
    • Nebraska Stories: The Liberators (Episode 103 Clip)

    • Nebraska Stories: The Liberators (Episode 103 Clip)

    • Nebraska Stories The Liberators video television tv segment clip special magazine Geyer Wolford Organizer Williams Bush Pollard Abalos Chapp Williams NE story Great Plains Omaha Washington District of Columbia D.C. DC state people history historic...

    • Segment from Episode 3
      1500 Nebraska veterans were recently flown to Washington, D.C. aboard seven 'Heartland Honor Flights' to visit the World War II monument. Hundreds of these veterans gathered in Omaha at a dinner to celebrate and share...
    • Nebraska Stories: Episode 103 (Full Program)

    • Nebraska Stories: Episode 103 (Full Program)

    • Nebraska Stories Episode 3 video television tv full program episode special magazine Geyer Wolford Lesiak Organizer Williams Bush Pollard Abalos Chapp Williams Historian Carter narrator Harris Momaday biographer Christianson Saiz writer Starita...

    • This episode includes: The Liberators, Greening of the Dust Bowl, Loren Eiseley's Reflections of the Depression, White Buffalo Girl, Giving Thanks at a One Room School, and Piano in Tow.
    • 1940s Barrel Chair

    • 1940s Barrel Chair

    • Miniature furniture

    • Barrel chair, fully upholstered circular form with continuous curved back and arms; padded removable seat; on plastic gold-painted toupee feet; upholstered in gold metallic stretch fabric. Unmarked. One of a pair of matching barrel chairs, one...
    • 1940s Barrel Chair

    • 1940s Barrel Chair

    • Miniature furniture

    • Barrel chair, fully upholstered circular form with continuous curved back and arms; padded removable seat; on plastic gold painted toupee feet; upholstered in turquoise metallic sparkle stretch fabric, unmarked. One of a pair of matching barrel...
    • 1940s Bathtub

    • 1940s Bathtub

    • Miniature furniture

    • White painted wood bathtub; rectangular form with 3 incised vertical lines on side; brass knobs and faucet. Part of a 4-piece matching bathroom set consisting of bathtub, cabinet sink, pedestal sink, and toilet.
    • 1940s Bookshelf

    • 1940s Bookshelf

    • Miniature furniture

    • Dark-stained wood bookshelf, rectangular top with beveled edge stained in lighter finish with rounded front corners; over single shelf with beveled front edge finished with lighter stain; on integral square legs with band of lighter stain down the...
    • 1940s Bookshelf

    • 1940s Bookshelf

    • Miniature furniture

    • Dark-stained wood bookshelf, rectangular top with beveled edge stained in lighter finish with rounded front corners; over single shelf with beveled front edge finished with lighter stain; on integral square legs with band of lighter stain down the...
    • 1940s Bookshelf

    • 1940s Bookshelf

    • Miniature furniture

    • Dark-stained wood bookshelf, rectangular top with beveled edge stained in lighter finish with rounded front corners; over single shelf with beveled front edge finished with lighter stain; on integral square legs with band of lighter stain down the...
    • 1940s Bookshelf

    • 1940s Bookshelf

    • Miniature furniture

    • Dark-stained wood bookshelf, rectangular top with beveled edge stained in lighter finish with rounded front corners; over single shelf with beveled front edge finished with lighter stain; on integral square legs with band of lighter stain down the...
    • 1940s Bookshelf

    • 1940s Bookshelf

    • Miniature furniture

    • Dark-stained wood bookshelf, rectangular top with beveled edge stained in lighter finish with rounded front corners; over single shelf with beveled front edge finished with lighter stain; on integral square legs with band of lighter stain down the...
    • 1940s Cabinet Sink

    • 1940s Cabinet Sink

    • Miniature furniture

    • White painted wood sink cabinet; rectangular top with raised backsplash, inset sink with brass faucet and knobs; with 3 incised vertical lines on front above working door with brass knob; over black-painted toe kick. Part of a 4-piece matching...
    • 1940s Pedestal Sink

    • 1940s Pedestal Sink

    • Miniature furniture

    • White painted wood sink, square top with inset sink and brass faucet and knobs, over square pedestal and base. Part of a 4-piece matching bathroom set consisting of bathtub, cabinet sink, pedestal sink, and toilet.

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