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September Noon History Bites at the Museum Discussed Univ. of Nebr. Band Director’s Uniform
Museum visitors gather to hear Terry Rush present about University of Nebraska Band Director Jack Snider's band uniform.
We had a great turnout for Noon ...
Flashback Friday: New Photos of 1890s Irrigation and Pioneer Life in the North Platte Valley Reveal New Insights
The right portion of this house shows a remnant of an earlier, lower gable, indicating that the house was originally built with a low roof (like the house in the left ...
1890s Business Women Challenged Fashion Standards
The invention of the typewriter changed the way American business and government prepared written materials. Jobs for "typewriters," as operators of the ...
Timeline Tuesday: Lurking in every Coca Cola glass is an ‘evil principle’
Caption: Interior of Fred Trute’s liquor store, Seward, Nebraska. RG2536-5-10
Readers of The Nebraska Issue (Lincoln), official organ of the Anti-Saloon ...
Timeline Tuesday: Barns in Nebraska Territory
Caption: Photo of the Filley Stone Barn, Gage County, taken on October 20, 1936 by Ruth Stanhope Brugh. NSHS RG0813.668
"Why is it there are no barns in ...
Flashback Friday Encore: Happy Birthday to the Arcadia Township Library
October 2nd marks 99 years since the opening of the Arcadia Township Library in Valley County. The library was designed by the Lincoln firm of Fiske and Meginnis. It was ...
Marker Monday: Lost Airmen of World War II
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On August 3, 1944, a C-47 transport carrying twenty-eight men of the U.S. Army Air Forces crashed in a ravine six miles southwest of Naper ...
Wild Weather Wednesday: Columbus, Nebr. 1905 Flood
Welcome to Wild Weather Wednesdays! We'll showcase a significant weather event in Nebraska's history. Sometimes the post will be a photo and a description, and sometimes ...
Throwback Thursday: The White Horse Ranch in Naper, Nebraska
Young woman jumping a horse with no saddle or bridle at the White Horse Ranch, 1953. [RG1714-15]
Giddy up! Today’ s Throwback Thursday photo takes us to ...
Timeline Tuesday: Better Baby Contests
Caption: Photographer Emanuel Wolfe depicted several finalists in a Nebraska better baby contest, each wearing a prize ribbon. NSHS RG2836.PH0-532
"If ...
The Indians as I Knew Them by Grace Stenberg Parsons – Memories of the Genoa Indian School
This manuscript was written by Grace Stenberg Parsons. As the daughter of the blacksmithing instructor at the Genoa Indian School in Genoa, Nebraska, Parsons observed ...
Flashback Friday: The Tragedies and Successes of the Genoa Indian School
“Nine o’clock taps and the wailing cry of the little boys as they stood under the sleeping porches with faces to the brick walls are two sounds that have ...
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