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Title: Cover of sheet music about Minnie Freeman and the Blizzard of 1888

Collection Code: RG3139

Collection Name: Blizzards

Date: 1888

Year range from: 0

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Description: Illustrated cover for sheet music about the Blizzard of 1888 : "Song of the Great Blizzard 1888 - ' Thirteen Were Saved ' or Nebraska's Fearless Maid" (Song and Chorus by William Vincent, Published by Lyon and Healy, Chicago, 1888) Use museum item 8731-50 when making orders for this image...In the illustration, a young woman carries a child in her arms. She is leading other children through a blizzard and the children are connected to her by ropes around her waist. The caption identifies the woman as "Minnie Freeman, School Teacher and Heroine, Whose Pluck and good Judgment Exhibited during the Recent fearful Blizzard in the Myra Valley District, Nebraska, Saved the Lives of thirteen helpless little Children"(Original copies of sheet music located in the museum collections and the library collection:Museum artifact # 8731-50 or Library call # 782.72 V74t)

Subjects: Snow

Subjects: Mittens

Subjects: Children

Subjects: School teachers

Subjects: Sheet music covers

Search Terms: Blizzard of 1888

Place: USA: Nebraska (Valley)

People: Freeman, Minnie

Event: Blizzard of 1888

Classification: Music

Classification: Weather

Classification: Disasters

Classification: Children

Object Name: Negative, Sheet Film

Medium: Plastic

Orig/Copy: Copy

Film Size: 4 x 5

Object ID: RG3139.PH0-000137

Photo Field 1: 100933, 2497

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