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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company 1900-1010
, The Burlington Route Brochure. 1909, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company

The Burlington Route 1909 Railroad Brochure giving facts about the Fast Mail and the Pacific Tours, including deatil s of the Sleeping Car Service and…

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Marriage record of Alfred E. Simms and Sarah Burch, Missouri State Marriage Jefferson City, MO, USA: Missouri State Archives. Microfilm., 1915

Alfred E Simms married Sarah Burch in 1915 in St Joseph Missouri. Includes the marriage application, the marriage license and the marriage…

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Map of the city of Lincoln. (northern sheet. Philadelphia, Everts & Kirk, 1885), [San Francisco, Calif.]: Cartography Associates, c2002, Philadelphia, Everts & Kirk, 1885. (on verso), 1885

The North City of Lincoln. in 1885. Showing block and lot numbers, major buildings, railroads, street railroad and  radial distances from State House

1920 United States Federal Census for Samuel Carriger Family, 1870 United States Federal Census, National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.

US census data of Samuel Carriger, the father of Alice Carriger, who owned a Rooming House in LIncoln with her husband John Carriger. One of the…

To Federal Court- Mason Todd Sues for wrongful arrest., Ancestry.Com, Lincoln Daily News, 1913

Notice in the Lincoln News announcing that Mason Todd sues Mrs Sodeberg for $5,000 stating that she caused his wrongful arrest and imprisonment.

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Benj. H. Day 1904, "The Best Way to Buffalo" Sun advertisement of Lackawanna Railroad., Benj. H. Day

An advertisement from the Sun Newspaper. Advertising the Lackawanna Railroad route to Buffalo from New York. Promising a straight trip with no…

Lincoln-Dining Car Chef, https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/digital/collection/nby_rrlife/id/514/rec/365, accessed 1948

Railroad Chef leaning out of the doorway of a train car.

Bureau of the Census, National Archives, Washington, D.C. 1920, James and Leona Dean: Fourteenth Census of the United States 1920, Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

1920 Census information for James and Leona Malone Dean ( 1884).  Lived in the downtown area of Lincoln at 905 Rose Street, on the corner of 10th and…

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Woman Boarding a Pullman Sleeper- helped by a Pullman Porter, Chicago History Museum, Chicago History Museum, Cica 1915

Photograph of a woman boarding a train with the help of a Pullman Porter. Porter stands off to the right, behind the passenger so as not to interfere…

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A Map of the Burlington Route, 1902, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, 1902

A map showing the Burlington Routes through Lincoln Ne.

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