![1888. Western Land Agency. Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota [caption title]. J. A. Bent](/pictures/thumb/McBRB53.JPG?v=1541957900)
[Wheaton, Il. 1888]. [4]pp. Narrow folio. Printed on pink paper, minor wear, including a few very short closed tears at edges. An appealing and scarce piece of ephemera relating to land sales in Nebraska and other Plains states in the late 1880s. J.A. Bent operated the Western Land Agency from..... More
![Iowa and Nebraska Railroad Lands for Sale on Ten Years' Credit [caption title]. Burlington,...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB170_01.JPG?v=1546607854)
[Burlington, Ia.? 1872]. Large broadsheet, 21.75 x 31.25 inches. Old folds, minor wear. Large broadsheet advertising land for sale along the route of the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad, in which the company offers 2,000,000 acres of the "best prairie lands" for sale in Iowa and Nebraska. The broadsheet contains..... More
[Chicago]: Rand McNally & Co., 1922. Folding map, 26.75 x 34 inches, folded to 7.5 x 4 inches. Light wear and soiling to covers, a few minor tears to edges of map. Clean and fresh. Rare map of Rand McNally's District 12, comprising Kansas, southern Nebraska, northern Oklahoma, most of..... More
![Panorama of Aurora, Nebraska]. Nebraska Photographica](/pictures/thumb/McBRB640.JPG?v=1564256217)
[Aurora, Ne. ca. 1900]. Panoramic photograph, 6.5 x 21.5 inches. Photo mounted to heavy cardstock; manuscript cation on verso of mount. Light wear at edges of photo. Light dust soiling. An attractive panorama that depicts the central Nebraska town of Aurora at the turn of the 20th-century. The wide angle..... More
![Constitution and By-Laws of the Orophilian Junior Literary Society [cover title]. Nebraska...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB838.jpg?v=1569499797)
University Place, Ne. Gazette Print, 1894. 21pp. Leaves misbound as issued. 16mo. Original green printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear. Contemporary ink inscription on final blank page. Constitution and governance for the Orophilian Junior Literary Society of Nebraska Wesleyan University, a private Methodist college in Lincoln. The object of the Society..... More
[Chicago & New York: Rogers and Company, ca. 1910]. [48]pp. Oblong octavo. Original dark green printed wrappers, tied with cord. Light wear and soiling, small chip to front cover. Light wear and soiling internally. Promotional work for the small town of Aurora, Nebraska, located between Kearny and Lincoln, near the..... More
Beatrice: Daily Democrat, 1888. 24pp. on a single folded sheet. Light soiling and wear, separating at central fold. Unrecorded and ephemeral promotional brochure for the tiny town of Beatrice, Nebraska, located in the southeast corner of the state. The town, founded in 1857, experienced a boom in the late-19th century..... More
Fremont: W.P. Fritz, 1905. 93,[11]pp. Quarto. Original pictorial printed wrappers, stapled. Spine lightly chipped, front cover starting, light soiling to wrappers. Internally clean. Handsome illustrated promotional work for Fremont, the most beautiful city in all Nebraska. Opening with a brief history of the town, it continues with numerous half tone..... More
![Fremont Pictured [cover title]. Nebraska](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1070.JPG?v=1572286239)
Fremont: Hammond Printing Company, [ca. 1910]. [106]pp. plus folding plate. Oblong quarto. Original brown printed wrappers, tied with cord. Light chipping and wear to covers and spine. Some light internal wear, first page soiled. "Fremont is a city of 12,000 inhabitants possessing advantages and ambitions that distinguish it as a...... More
Fremont: Hammond Printing Co., [1926]. [48]pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Small patches of dampstaining and light wear to wrap. Central pair of conjugate leaves detached. Internally clean. A very scarce 1920s promotional for the central Nebraska town of Fremont, northwest of Omaha on the Platte River. The pamphlet is profusely..... More
Omaha: McBride & Co., 1890. 16pp. 16mo. Original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Very minor soiling. With the splendid cover title of "Truths / Omaha / 1889", this little promotional work contains facts and figures detailing how money is made in Omaha and why it's a great place for business. Includes..... More
![Souvenir Album of Beatrice, Neb. [cover title]. Nebraska](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1080_01.JPG?v=1572286242)
[Columbus, Oh. Ward Bros. 1891]. [12]pp. in an accordion fold. Oblong 12mo. Original black-stamped cloth boards. Wear and chipping to spine ends and corners. First fold separated and reinforced with tape on verso. Light wear else. Pictorial souvenir for the tiny town of Beatrice, Nebraska, located in the southeast corner..... More
Fremont: Fremont Tribune, 1893. 32pp. Original green printed wrappers. Light wear and dust soiling. A scarce pamphlet publishing the rules of the local chapter of Freemasons in Fremont, Nebraska, as of 1893, and an interesting document of this outpost of the Odd Fellows in the rural eastern part of the..... More
[Lincoln, Ne. 1876]. Broadside, 24.5 x 10 inches. Old fold lines. Some wear and soiling, small loss near top left and lower right edges. Announcing the fourth appearance of the Lincoln Thespians on the evening of June 29, 1876, performing Enoch Arden and a vaudeville play entitled The Loan of..... More
[Omaha. 1880]. 16pp. Original printed wrappers. Light dampstaining to wraps; moderate chip at center of rear wrapper fore-edge. Slight biopredation at upper fore-edge of text block; light tanning. A scarce, Nebraska-specific promotional for Union Pacific lands, published by the railroad's land office in Omaha in 1880. The pamphlet contains two..... More
Chattanooga: Times Print, 1898. [29]pp. Narrow 12mo. Original red cloth, cover gilt. Spine heavily chipped, corners worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on front pastedown, contemporary notations to several leaves. Regimental roster for the Second Nebraska Volunteers, mustered into service for the Spanish American War at Lincoln, in May 1898. The regiment..... More
![Cheyenne Wyoming to Omaha Nebraska via Lincoln Highway 538.5 Miles [cover title]. Wyoming,...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB724.JPG?v=1562074700)
Los Angeles: Automobile Club of Southern California, [ca. 1918]. Map on seven individual cards, each 3.75 x 10 inches, in original printed storage envelope. Envelope with some dust soiling and light wear. Light tanning to map cards. Rare map of a western section of the Lincoln Highway from Cheyenne to..... More