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The collection Lininger accrued was estimated to include about 300 works, with about 60 painting by Old Masters. The collection included statuary, bric-a-brac , curios, and Egyptian mummies . Two of the most famous paintings in Lininger's collection were Guido Reni's 1605 painting of "David with the Head of Goliath", and " The Return of Spring ...
Pioneer Village is a museum and tourist attraction along U.S. Highway 6 in Minden, Nebraska, United States, featured in many roadside and historical attraction guides. [1] It is made up of a collection of 50,000 historical objects and 28 historical buildings. [ 2 ]
Byron Reed, 1854–1904 Nebraskans. Byron Reed (March 12, 1829 – June 6, 1891) was an American pioneer real estate businessman and local politician in Omaha, Nebraska.He founded the first real estate office in the Nebraska Territory and became the foremost agent after Nebraska achieved statehood.
[2] [3] Among the structures in Railroad Town is the house where actor Henry Fonda was born in 1905. [4] Movies filmed at the museum include Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991) and My Antonia (1995). [5] The museum once had a working steam locomotive that traveled the 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge Nebraska Midland Railroad on the museum grounds. [6]
The first edition of 1000 copies sold out before its delivery date, in the summer of 1901; a second printing, of either 500 or 1000 copies, was issued before Christmas of that year. The book, titled Pioneer History of Custer County and Short Sketches of Early Days in Nebraska, included 200 engravings in its more than 400 pages. [12] [25] [27]
The collection includes 1,163 coins from the United States that are valued at $6,447,000. 693 coins from around the world are worth $95,000. There are 1,400 pieces of exonumia valued at $322,000. The 673 pieces of paper money is worth $54,000, and the 2,850 books and documents in the collection total $975,000.
2 Antelope: 11 3 Arthur: 2 4 Banner: 1 5 Blaine: 0 6 Boone: 6 7 Box Butte: 4 8 Boyd: 5 9 Brown: 1 10 Buffalo: 23 11 Burt: 14 12 Butler: 13 13 Cass: 32 14 Cedar: 14 15 Chase: 7 16 Cherry: 13 17 Cheyenne: 11 18 Clay: 10 19 Colfax: 13 20 Cuming: 3 21 Custer: 14 22 Dakota: 5 23 Dawes: 15 24 Dawson: 10 25 Deuel: 5 26 Dixon: 6 27 Dodge: 22 28 Douglas ...
The List of National Historic Landmarks in Nebraska contains the landmarks designated by the U.S. Federal Government for the U.S. state of Nebraska. There are 23 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in Nebraska.