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Nebraska Digital Newspaper Program Earns $200,000 Grant
The National Endowment for the Humanities has granted the University of Nebraska-Lincoln $200,000 to continue the Nebraska Digital Newspaper Program with an expanded ...
10 Tips to Take Care of Your Family Photographs
October is American Archives Month. Here are 10 tips to care for your family photographs from (former) Photograph Curator Karen Keehr
Store your photographs and ...
Preserving Your Family Papers
We receive calls and e-mails all the time asking us for advice on how to preserve family papers. Here are a few tips that will help to ensure your family's history is ...
Timeline Tuesday: Celery Growing in Nebraska
Nebraska farmers have often experimented with new crops in their endeavor to obtain wealth from the land. The Kearney Daily Hub, on May 16, 1901, ...
Timeline Tuesday: When Nebraskans Used Creek Mud and Lemons for Greater Beauty
The 1926 interior of Miss Agnes's Beauty Shoppe, inside the Hotel Cornhusker, at 301 South 13th Street in Lincoln. RG2158-11-1
Tanned skin has not always ...
Marker Monday: Tekamah
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today, we're talking about the history of the town of Tekamah. Or ...
Wild Weather Wednesday: Niobrara, the Town That Moved Twice
Welcome to Wild Weather Wednesday. We’ll post a photo from our collections depicting an extreme weather event from Nebraska’s past.
Stereoview: Missouri River flood ...
Flashback Friday: Dog Soup Party
Dog Soup Party, Pine Ridge Sioux. RG0802.120-82
By Kylie Kinley, Assistant Editor
If you search our photo collection for the word “party,” you expect ...
The Curious Candidacy of Americus Liberator
In 1968 Secretary of State Frank Marsh formally recognized the “Peace on Earth Party,” which held its first convention in Omaha.[1] Then Herbert F. Hoover, fourth cousin ...
1933 Millard Hotel Fire
Today's moment of Nebraska history takes us to a devastating fire that destroyed Omaha's Millard Hotel on the night of February 8, 1933. Seven firemen lost their lives ...
Wild Weather Wednesday: Lincoln Lightning Strike
Welcome to Wild Weather Wednesday. We'll post a photo from our collections depicting an extreme weather event from Nebraska's past. Lincoln has been having its own wild ...
Call for Dodds Houses in May Yields Results
Five previously unidentified early twentieth-century “pattern book” houses by Omaha architect Everett S. Dodds have been located thanks to a search sponsored by ...
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