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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 ...
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 ...
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