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Community History Archive Partner

Lied Pierce Public Library

Pierce, Nebraska

Explore this community history collection to discover the people, places, organizations, and events of Pierce.

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1877 to 2003Dates represented

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176,474Archive pages

Historical pages reported for this collection.

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Discover the people, places, and stories of Pierce, Nebraska.

Get to know Pierce, Nebraska in earlier years through the newspapers shared in the Lied Pierce Public Library's digital archive. Its three titles include material from 1877 to 2003.

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  • Selected titles

    In the collection shared by Lied Pierce Public Library, you will find “Pierce County Call” and “The Pierce Times - Call”.

  • Free and open access

    No subscription or payment required.

  • A closer look

    Newspaper pages connect individual accounts with a wider story, preserving how events were reported and presented to the readers of the day.

Historical newspapers can connect a family name with the events and everyday concerns of an earlier time, offering more than a date or a name on its own. Bring a family connection, a question about a familiar place or an interest in local history, and see where the sources lead. Explore the archive online for free, without a subscription.

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Titles in this collection

Browse three titles and 176,474 digitized pages, with material from 1877 to 2003. A partnership between Lied Pierce Public Library and Advantage Archives makes this collection available. Some years or items may be missing between the dates shown.

If you are tracing a family connection or exploring local history, the titles below offer a place to begin and a thread to follow.

Pierce County Call

52,110 pages from 1877 to 1948

Pierce County Leader

123,884 pages from 1892 to 2003

The Pierce Times - Call

480 pages in 1887

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About the Archive

About the Lied Pierce Public Library's History Archives

The Lied Pierce Public Library offers free access to its historical resources through its digital archives, provided in partnership with Advantage Archives . The Lied Pierce Public Library has digitized local publications, preserving the town’s rich history for public exploration.

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About the Library

About the Lied Pierce Public Library

The Lied Pierce Public Library provides diverse materials that reflect all viewpoints on contemporary issues, with an emphasis on both factual and creative works to serve the community’s educational and recreational needs.

Library History

The History of the Lied Pierce Public Library

The library is committed to evolving with the community, incorporating technological advances to ensure it meets the changing needs of Pierce's residents.

Local History

Did You Know?

  • The library has been digitizing local publications dating back to 1877.

More ways to explore and share local history

Research Guidance

Look for the story behind a result

Start with something you would like to understand about the past of Pierce. It might be a person, a neighborhood or an event remembered in your family. Use the digital archive shared by the Lied Pierce Public Library to follow that question into the historical record. When using historical newspapers, try alternate spellings and nearby dates, then read the surrounding page to place a local story in its time. Compare later reporting or another available title to explore different perspectives rather than treating one account as the whole story. Search a person, place, or event with a second term, then compare the date and context of each result. A repeated name needs more evidence before it identifies the same person or connects two parts of a story.

After recording the issue and page, search a second term tied to the result and compare the surrounding dates and accounts. Keep matching names provisional until the place and context fit. This can turn one result into a better question without turning a repeated name into a confirmed story.

Capture the title, date, and page or item location for a detail you may want to revisit. Label your interpretation as your reading, not the source's own words. Keep enough context with the note that another reader can retrace it.

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Community Partnership

Keeping local history a community resource

This community archive is made possible by the collaboration of the Lied Pierce Public Library, its community, and Advantage Archives. Together, these partnerships preserve local sources and give people a way to explore, learn from, and share the history around them.

Advantage Archives covers ongoing archive hosting, storage, development, and maintenance. The institution and its community do not pay a subscription, seat license, annual support contract, or other recurring archive-service charge. Local history remains a community resource, not a subscription to maintain.

Would you like to see more of your community's history preserved and accessible? Start a conversation with your library, newspaper publisher, historical or genealogical society, museum, or school about the materials they would like to share and a possible partnership with Advantage Archives.

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Read All About It

Stories, research tips, and archive news

Read All About It connects archive research with the people and institutions preserving local history. Explore partner and community stories, project updates, research ideas, and perspectives on digitization, education, and working with primary sources. Use the articles as a starting point for your next question or a new way to share a discovery.

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March 18, 2025

It’s Your Community’s History, So Why Rent Something You Own?

We believe that history belongs to the communities where it was made - not locked behind paywalls or inaccessible due to budget restrictions. Subscription-based services and large content aggregators are generally more concerned with "content" and less concerned with the history that content contains. Their models typically involve a reoccurring charge for a plan that renews annually or licensing agreements with the library based on population served or circulation numbers. You are essentially Renting Access To YOUR History.
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