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Pleasant Hill - Dist. #16, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Pleasant Hill School, located 7 miles north of Kearney, in Buffalo County, Nebraska. Image is of the modern school and probably not the building described in the site form.

Includes a copy of a 1958 Kearney Hub article titled "Schoolboy on Horse Fast Fading Scene", additional information from after the school was moved to the Stuhr Museum, including an inventory of the school, and a note titled "Current Use of the Gibbon Rural School in the Museum's Cultural Heritage Program". The latter two documents refer to the school as being part of District #25.

Buffalo Creek - Dist. #34, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Buffalo Creek School, located 7 miles south and 1 1/2 miles east of Tilden in Madison County, Nebraska. Includes a history of the district, written by Sharyl Linda Roewert as an 8th grade assignment in 1967.

Glenwood - Dist. #14, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Glenwood School, 4 miles north of Kearney on Highway 10 in Buffalo County, Nebraska. Includes images of both old and new (~1980) building.

The Religious Historian, Volume 1, Issue 12, Tolbert Fanning

The Religious Historian

Volume 1, issue 12 of The Religious Historian edited by Tolbert Fanning and published December 1872 in Nashville, Tennessee.

1872-05-30 Flemingsburg Democrat, Flemingsburg Democrat (Flemingsburg, Ky.)

Flemingsburg Democrat Archive

Flemingsburg Democrat published on May 30, 1872.

1872-04-11 Flemingsburg Democrat, Flemingsburg Democrat (Flemingsburg, Ky.)

Flemingsburg Democrat Archive

Flemingsburg Democrat published on April 11, 1872.

Gleason School - Dist. # 43, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on the Gleason School, District #43. It is located near Oakland in Burt County, Nebraska. At the time the form was filled out in ~1980, the school was still in use.

Eich - Dist. #57, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Eich School, also called White Temple School. The school was located about 1 1/2 mi. northwest of Strang in Fillmore County, NE. Includes a quote from The Fillmore County Story and a letter from Mrs. William Eich, the owner of the school.

St. Deroin School - Dist. #56, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on St. Deroin School, located 14 miles southeast of Brownville in Nemaha County, Nebraska. Note that there are two site forms for this location, both including the brochure from Nebraska Game and Parks.

Additional correspondence between Ernest Grundy and Homestead National Monument is included.

Linden School - Dist. #21, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Linden School, located 2 miles north and 4 miles west of Auburn, Nebraska. Includes a letter from Ernest Grundy to Ms. Maxine Chatelain, asking for her help gathering information on the school.

Dist. #3, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on District #3 in Madison County, Nebraska. Includes several histories of the district, written by current students attending the school.

Carte-De-Visite Photograph: "2 Headed Girl, Millie Crissie," No Date., J. H. Fitzgibbon

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Conjoined twins Millie and Christine McKoy in full portrait. Date of photograph unknown (likely ca. 1870, subjects died 1912).

Cottier - Dist. #21, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on the Cottier School, located 15 miles northeast of Falls City in Richardson County, Nebraska.

1865-05-25 Federal Union, Federal Union (Paducah, Ky.)

The Federal Union Archive

Federal Union published on May 25, 1865.

True Loyalty And The Independence Of The Church, Unknown

Regional Items

Pamphlet produced by members of the Missouri Presbyterian church who were troubled by an order from the Provost-Marshall General, W.S. Rosencrans.

The order required members of a church meeting to sign a loyalty oath to the U.S. government before they would be allowed to participate. The pamphlet focuses on two members, who had been loyal to the Union during the Civil War, but were offended that civil law was being mixed with church functions.

Cosas De Los Estados Unidos, Simon Camacho

Civil War Text

The author Simón Camacho wrote the book under the pseudonym "Nazareno." Edited by James Durand. It contains letters and sketches covering the years 1856 to 1863. Includes the author's portrait, engraved by J.A. O'Neill from a photograph by Fredericks. Also contains a reproduction of the author's signature. Spine title: Cosas de los E. Unidos.

1863-08-14 Savannah Daily Republican, Savannah Daily Republican (Savannah, Ga)

Guarding Ossabaw Island: History and Archaeology of the 47th N.Y.V.I. Camp

An article on the Federal Camp on Ossabaw Island published in the Chicago Tribune on May 26. 1863.

Savannah Daily Republican, “Ossabaw,” July 20, 1863.

1863-07-20 Savannah Daily Republican, Savannah Daily Republican (Savannah, Ga)

Guarding Ossabaw Island: History and Archaeology of the 47th N.Y.V.I. Camp

An article on the Federal Camp on Ossabaw Island published in the Savannah Republican on July 20, 1863.

Savannah Republican, July 20, 1863.

Hickory Grove - Dist. #27, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Hickory Grove School, located 4 miles west and 2 miles south of Auburn in Nemaha County, Nebraska. The school began as district #3.

Note that there are two site forms for Hickory Grove School. Both include a History of School District 27.

New-York Tribune.

African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection – Text

New-York Tribune Vol. XVIII. No. 1797, Friday, August 15, 1862. New-York Tribune is an American daily newspaper established by Horace Greeley in 1841. From the 1840s through the 1860s it was the dominant Whig Party and then Republican newspaper in the U.S. In 1924 it was merged with the New York Herald to form the New York Herald Tribune, which in turn ceased publication in 1966.

Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, January 17, 1861 - April 5, 1861, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

No abstract provided.

Mount Vernon Democratic Banner October 12, 1858

Mount Vernon Banner Historic Newspaper 1858

Mount Vernon Democratic Banner was a newspaper published weekly in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Until 1853, it was published as the Democratic Banner.

1858-02-03 Maysville Express, Maysville Express (Maysville, Ky.)

Maysville Express Archive

Maysville Express published on February 3, 1858.

The Chester Standard - September 10, 1857, J. Belton Mickle, George Pither

The Chester Standard 1857

The collection consists of issues of the Chester Standard, a weekly newspaper printed in Chester S.C. from 1854 to 1869, after changing its name from the Palmetto Standard. This issue, scanned from microfilm is from September 10, 1857 (volume VIII, number 37).

The Chester Standard - July 2, 1857, J. Belton Mickle, George Pither

The Chester Standard 1857

The collection consists of issues of the Chester Standard, a weekly newspaper printed in Chester S.C. from 1854 to 1869, after changing its name from the Palmetto Standard. This issue, scanned from microfilm is from July 2, 1857 (volume VIII, number 27).

The Eastern Mail (Vol. 10, No. 46): May 28, 1857, Ephraim Maxham, Daniel Ripley Wing

The Eastern Mail (Waterville, Maine)

Continues The Waterville Union (April-July 1847).
Published weekly, July 19, 1847-Aug. 28, 1863.
Publishers: E. Maxham, 1847-1849; Maxham & Wing, 1849-1863.
"Independent," 1847-1856; "Republican," 1856-1863.
Editors: E. Maxham & D.R. Wing, 1849-1863.
Continued by The Waterville Mail (September 1863-May 1906).
See Gerould, W.G.: American newspapers, 1821-1836; Whittemore, E.C.: Centennial history of Waterville.
Colby Libraries catalog record (CBBcat): http://cbbcat.net/record=b1228542~S19
WorldCat record (OCLC): http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10486915

The Eastern Mail (Vol. 10, No. 43): May 7, 1857, Ephraim Maxham, Daniel Ripley Wing

The Eastern Mail (Waterville, Maine)

Continues The Waterville Union (April-July 1847).
Published weekly, July 19, 1847-Aug. 28, 1863.
Publishers: E. Maxham, 1847-1849; Maxham & Wing, 1849-1863.
"Independent," 1847-1856; "Republican," 1856-1863.
Editors: E. Maxham & D.R. Wing, 1849-1863.
Continued by The Waterville Mail (September 1863-May 1906).
See Gerould, W.G.: American newspapers, 1821-1836; Whittemore, E.C.: Centennial history of Waterville.
Colby Libraries catalog record (CBBcat): http://cbbcat.net/record=b1228542~S19
WorldCat record (OCLC): http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10486915

1855-03-10 Tri-Weekly Maysville Eagle, Tri-Weekly Maysville Eagle (Maysville, Ky.)

Tri-Weekly Maysville Eagle Archive

Tri-Weekly Maysville Eagle published on March 10, 1855.

Catalogue Of The Professors And Students Of Jefferson Medical College Of Philadelphia: Session Of 1855-56

Jefferson Medical College Catalogs

No abstract provided.

The Chester Standard - June 2, 1854, C. Davis Melton

The Chester Standard 1854

The collection consists of issues of the Chester Standard, a weekly newspaper printed in Chester S.C. from 1854 to 1869, after changing its name from the Palmetto Standard. This issue, scanned from microfilm is from June 2, 1854 (volume V, number 22).