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Category: History

Kaufman Wernert & Swans Furniture
Get your goldfish here!
Kaufmann-Wernert offered many items for the serious Kearney shopper, including a variety of small animals. On the first floor, at the back of the store you could find fish, turtles, and birds availabl …

Categories: Art, History
Candace Imming
Born and raised in Kearney for 22 years, I moved east to explore and experience new life conditions. First, Omaha and then Massachusetts. I attended Kearney schools with a primary interest in science, …

Categories: Art, Education, History

Butcher Solomon Baseball Team At Kearney Industrial School, 1914, Kearney, Nebraska
Solomon Butcher
Solomon Butcher is the most famous photographer to live and work in Kearney, known nationally for his images of homesteaders and early settlement in and around Custer County, Nebraska. Nearly all of B …

Categories: History, Photography
Egan Kieren
He was born in 1942 in Clonmel, Ireland, and was raised and educated in England. After a brief period as a novice in a Franciscan monastery, he graduated from the University of London with a Bachelor …

Categories: Education, History
Johann Salvator von Habsburg
Archduke Johann Salvator von Habsburg comes from Bad Ischel in the heart of the Salzkammergut in Austira, and now resides in the Salzkammergut, lives in Traunkirchen and owns a hunting lodge that belo …

Categories: History

Kearney State College-University Of Nebraska At Kearney Yanney-Peterson Memorial Carillon Dedication
Memorial Carillon Tower at KSC/UNK
Okay. You graduate from the small town of Giltner, Nebraska, major in architecture at UNL, and send out just four resumes. One of them to Jack Wilkins, with the architectural firm of Jack D. Wilkins a …

Categories: History

Susanne Bloomfield
Susanne George Bloomfield
Born on a farm in Minden, Nebraska, I moved to Kearney at age 13 when my father became Head of the Printing Department at Kearney State College. I spent my teenage age years riding my horse in the Pla …

Categories: Education, History, Literature
G W Frank Museum of History and Culture
The G.W. Frank Museum of History and Culture is a significant component of the Kearney area, and its story offers a long and rich historical look into Kearney’s early development. Located on the Unive …

Categories: History

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