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Exhibits

Find a digital exhibit on the Lincoln Highway (including photographs, and a travel journal) and a digital exhibit on Chimney Rock, including images and documents combined with a narrative that tells the story of the Oregon, California, and Mormon trails and the Great Migration West.

Chimney Rock National Historic Site A digital exhibit of 187 images, including photographs, documents, artifacts, and artwork reflecting the Overland Trail experience. Most of the images were taken from the exhibit at the Chimney Rock National Historic Site, outside Bayard, Nebraska, although several photographs were scanned from the Nebraska State Historical Society's holdings in Lincoln, Nebraska. for information
Lincoln Highway A digital exhibit of thirty-seven photographs, an article "Hall County's Seedling Mile Holds Memories of Nation's First Transcontinental Highway," by Tom Anderson, and a portion of a journal kept by Bayard H. Paine on his travels that included driving the Lincoln Highway from Truckee, California to Grand Island, Nebraska in 1915.
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Supported in part by funding from the Institute of Museum and
Library Services, administered by the Nebraska Library Commission.
For more information, contact Devra Dragos.