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Community History Archive Partner
Virgil and Helen Biegert Public Library
Shickley, Nebraska
Explore this community history collection to discover the people, places, organizations, and events of Shickley.
1872 to 2024Dates represented
See individual titles for available dates.
443,766Archive pages
Historical pages reported for this collection.
Explore local history
Discover the people, places, and stories of Shickley, Nebraska.
Get to know Shickley, Nebraska in earlier years through newspapers as well as yearbooks and annuals shared in the Virgil and Helen Biegert Public Library's digital archive. Its fifty-five titles include material from 1872 to 2024. The collection also includes maps and atlases as well as photographs and illustrations.
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Selected titles
Selected titles from Virgil and Helen Biegert Public Library include “Geneva High School Yearbooks” and “Shickley Herald”.
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Different views of the past
An image adds a visual perspective on the past. Look at what it actually shows, keeping any caption or date with the detail that draws you in. 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 fifty-five titles and 443,766 digitized pages, with material from 1872 to 2024. A partnership between Virgil and Helen Biegert Public Library and Advantage Archives makes this collection available. Some years or items may be missing between the dates shown.
Follow a family connection or a question about the community through the titles below and the history they preserve.
Airbase Golden Anniversary 1946-1996
112 pages in 1996
Atlas of Fillmore County
448 pages from 1918 to 1977
Exeter Enterprise
11,462 pages from 1877 to 1909
Fairmont 125 Anniversary 1873-1998
314 pages in 1998
Fairmont Bulletin
1,132 pages from 1876 to 1885
Fairmont High School Yearbook
9,136 pages from 1909 to 2000
Fairmont Nebraska Centennial 1873-1973
234 pages in 1973
Fairmont Tribune
1,642 pages from 1897 to 1899
Fillmore Chronicle
45,410 pages from 1897 to 1957
Fillmore County Bulletin
296 pages from 1872 to 1873
Fillmore County Democrat
1,850 pages from 1893 to 1898
Fillmore County News
72,312 pages from 1899 to 1997
Fillmore County Republican
1,520 pages from 1889 to 1894
Fillmore County Review
104 pages from 1876 to 1882
Fillmore Weekly Chronicle
11,282 pages from 1885 to 1915
Filmore County Story Book
814 pages in 1968
Friday Journal
732 pages from 1894 to 1896
Friday Journal and The Nebraska Signal
12 pages in 1896
Geneva Gazette
9,820 pages from 1895 to 1911
Geneva High School Yearbooks
12,158 pages from 1918 to 2000
Geneva Review
864 pages from 1883 to 1885
Grafton Bulletin
16 pages in 1896
Grafton Clarion
228 pages in 1902
Grafton Gazette
40 pages from 1881 to 1882
Grafton Leader
16 pages in 1892
Grafton News
12 pages in 1892
Grafton Sun
2,172 pages from 1898 to 1902
Herald Sentinel
574 pages from 1922 to 1925
Illustrated Album Biography
2,274 pages in 1899
Milligan Journal
3,096 pages from 1897 to 1901
Milligan Review
17,026 pages from 1933 to 1953
Milligan Times
8,084 pages from 1901 to 1920
Nebraska Bulletin
112 pages in 1872
Nebraska Signal
11,714 pages from 1881 to 1896
Nebraska Signal
173,386 pages from 1896 to 2024
Nebraska Signal
16,932 pages from 2009 to 2020
Nebraska Weekly Bulletin
88 pages in 1872
Ohiowa Advertiser
2,116 pages from 1925 to 1930
Ohiowa Ohiowan
724 pages from 1906 to 1912
Ohiowa Opinion
1,286 pages from 1930 to 1934
Ohiowa Spot Light
1,098 pages from 1914 to 1917
Ohiowan
2,962 pages from 1895 to 1912
Our Independent
4 pages in 1877
Record
8 pages in 1885
Remember When, A Pictorial History of Shickley, Nebraska
724 pages in 1900
Republican Journal
326 pages in 1894
Shickley Herald
5,144 pages from 1895 to 1922
Shickley High School Yearbooks
10,568 pages from 1949 to 2024
Signal
4 pages in 1882
Strang Reporter
246 pages from 1892 to 1903
Sutton Advertiser
8 pages in 1892
The Official State Atlas Of Nebraska
386 pages in 1885
Tuesday Journal
430 pages from 1895 to 1896
Tuesday Journal and The Nebraska Signal
12 pages in 1896
Tuesday Republican
296 pages from 1894 to 1895
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About the Archive
About the Virgil and Helen Biegert Public Library's History Archives
The Virgil and Helen Biegert Public Library offers free access to its historical resources through its digital archives, provided in partnership with Advantage Archives . The Virgil and Helen Biegert Public Library has digitized an extensive range of local publications, preserving Shickley and Fillmore County’s rich history for public exploration.
About the Library
About the Virgil and Helen Biegert Public Library
The Virgil and Helen Biegert Public Library in Shickley was built in 1994 thanks to a generous donation from the couple. The library provides a welcoming space for the community, offering resources and programs that encourage lifelong learning and community engagement.
Local History
Did You Know?
- Local publications dating back to 1872 have been digitized, preserving over a century of history.
More ways to explore and share local history
Research Guidance
Look beyond a familiar name
The names and activities recorded in a yearbook can point toward school life in Shickley. Start with an entry in the yearbooks and annuals shared by the Virgil and Helen Biegert Public Library, note its year and page, and compare captions or nearby references where available. Keep the volume’s perspective visible and use another source to test a wider family or community connection. School activities and groups changed over time; surviving pages can point toward a period without describing every student's experience.
Where the available dates overlap, compare a place mentioned in a newspaper with the mapped setting. Check each source's date and purpose before connecting a street or boundary. A familiar place name can change meaning over time.
Keep the title, date, page or item reference with each useful finding. Separate the words in a historical account from your interpretation, and note conflicting perspectives rather than choosing one too quickly. These notes help you connect a local story to its evidence and explain what remains uncertain.
Community Partnership
Keeping local history a community resource
This community archive is made possible by the collaboration of the Virgil and Helen Biegert 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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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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