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The Flu Hidden in Christmas Card, 63.1.21.16.11
The Flu Hidden in Christmas Card, 63.1.21.16.11

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The Flu Hidden in Christmas Card, 63.1.21.16.11

Heritage Center2022-01-20T15:02:47-08:00January 20th, 2022|Categories: Archives Spotlight, Uncategorized|Tags: 1918, 1963.001.0021.016.11, Anti-German Sentiment, Carl Goehring, Christmas, France, Grand Island, Holidays, Infectious Diseases, Influenza, Magic Countdown, Nebraska, Renska Swart, Richard Goehring, Thekla Goehring, WWI|

Apparently Cheery postcard belied a hard year for one family. WHC Collections 63.1.21.16.11 In cataloging what, by all appearances, looked like very [...]

Washington School Architectural Detail, 999.277

Heritage Center2016-10-20T14:56:20-07:00May 14th, 2014|Categories: Artifact Spotlight|Tags: 12th Street, 999.277, Architectural Fragments, Center Street, East School, Historic Preservation, Lewis Judson, Missing Artifacts, Renska Swart, Safeway, T.M. Medford, Washington School|

Today, Volunteer George found an undated, unsourced newspaper article which describes the demolition of the old Washington School and subsequent donation of architectural fragments to [...]

Plain Talk, 1892

Heritage Center2016-10-20T14:56:26-07:00December 18th, 2013|Categories: Archives Spotlight, Uncategorized|Tags: Contagion, Contagious Diseases, Dr. William M. Welch, Philadelphia, Renska Swart, YMCA, Young Men's Christian Organization|

This ticket (WHC 63.1.1.8) made us giggle a little bit today. Aside from the wonderful irony that boys are not admitted to a program at [...]

Renska Swart

January 2022

The Flu Hidden in Christmas Card, 63.1.21.16.11

The Flu Hidden in Christmas Card, 63.1.21.16.11

May 2014

Washington School Architectural Detail, 999.277

December 2013

Plain Talk, 1892