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Throwback Thursday Photo, Burwell Rodeo
Yee Haw! It’s Rodeo Week in Nebraska. Today’s Throwback Thursday Photo features Shadey James on Grasshopper the Nebraska’s Big Rodeo in Burwell, ca. 1925. The Burwell ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Neligh Race Car
Today’s Throwback Thursday photo has our motor running. Two unidentified young men pose with their souped up Essex Motors automobile on the dirt race track in Neligh, ...
Nebraska Unwrapped: What would you include?
Calling all would-be curators! What should the Nebraska State Historical Society be collecting? When the Nebraska History Museum in Lincoln re-opens on April 1st, it ...
On This Day: Welcoming Displaced Persons
Governor Val Peterson, center, reviewing relief plans during the blizzard of 1949.
On February 4, 1948, the Honorable Val Peterson, Governor of the State of Nebraska, ...
New artifact has ties to “The School Children’s Blizzard of 1888”
The Nebraska History Library recently received a donated book from a University Library in Kansas that was inscribed by Minnie Freeman Penney. Minnie is of course ...
Timeline Tuesday: Butter Churning
Fairmont Creamery, butter packing, Omaha plant, 1911. RG4218-1-16
Well into the nineteenth century butter was made chiefly by hand using butter churns, ...
The Omaha Daily Bee Rages Against Comic Valentines
A Valentine's Day portrait of a child sitting in a large heart with an arrow through it, Omaha 1934. RG3882-49-0173-3
Although Valentine's Day and the ...
Timeline Tuesday: Willa Cather and Beauty and the Beast
Cast of 'Beauty and the Beast' including Willa Cather in a top hat. The play was a comedic musical version written by J Barmby. RG1951-1119
The Red Cloud ...
Marker Monday: Cedar County
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we're focusing on a marker that tells the story of Nebraska's ...
Timeline Tuesday: Coal Thieves
Workers at Honey Creek Coal Mine, Peru, Nebr. RG2304-8-58
The advent of winter at one time prompted many Nebraska householders to lay in a supply of coal. ...
Timeline Tuesday: Fuel and Water — The Housewife’s Needs
Four women stand in a kitchen setting, date and place unknown. RG2343.18
By the late 1800s, new household conveniences were available to lighten some of a ...
Late 19th Century Divorces in Seward County Claim Adultery, Cruelty, and Name-Calling
Main Street, Seward, Nebraska. NSHS RG2536-5-154
On April 19, 1890 Maggie Devore filed a petition for divorce from her husband James Devore, initiating ...
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