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Flashback Friday Encore: Comics, Cartoons, Drawings and Doodles
The Library/Archives holds the collections of various Nebraska artists and cartoonists. One such collection is that of Guy Spencer, cartoonist for the Omaha World-Herald ...
Marker Monday: Mallalieu University, Red Willow County
The University, named for Bishop Mallalieu, was opened in September, 1886, with an enrollment of sixty students.
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Flashback Friday: When Nebraska Schools Had Rubber Coats as Blackboards and Cowchips for Heat
Lakeland sod high school is under construction. Summer 1934 RG4290.PH0-001505
Our Sod Schoolhouse Marker Monday and Throwback Thursday posts were so ...
Timeline Tuesday: Nebraska’s Dog and Pony Show
Welcome to our new weekly series, “Timeline Tuesday.” Every Tuesday, we’ll post a brief Nebraska history story. The late NSHS historian and Nebraska History Associate ...
Timeline Tuesday: Cambridge vs. Omaha Tech for State Football Title, 1924
Welcome to our weekly series, "Timeline Tuesday." Every Tuesday, we'll post a brief Nebraska history story. The late NSHS historian and Nebraska History Associate Editor ...
Marker Monday: Post South Loup Fork – a.k.a “Fort Banishment”
Marker Text
On the South Loup River southwest of here was the site of the U.S. Army's Post South Loup Fork. This small outpost of Fort Kearney was ...
Beatrice, Crete, and Schuyler Downtown Historic Districts Now Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Corner of 11th and C Streets, view west, 1953. Photo courtesy of City of Schuyler
The historic downtown districts of Beatrice, Crete, and Schuyler are now ...
NSHS mourns death of esteemed colleague Jim Potter
The NSHS has lost an esteemed colleague and dear friend with the unexpected death of Senior Research Historian Jim Potter on Saturday, August 6. Jim began work at the ...
Sellers Award Winner for 2015 Announced
The Lincoln Star, August 17, 1955
The winner of the Sellers Award, which recognizes the best article published in Nebraska History Journal in the course ...
Timeline Tuesday: Burwell, Nebraska, Flying Machines, 1912 and 1964
Welcome to our weekly series, "Timeline Tuesday." Every Tuesday, we'll post a brief Nebraska history story. The late NSHS historian and Nebraska History Associate ...
Timeline Tuesday: Schuyler Flour Mill Once the Largest West of Missouri River
The Schuyler Mill in its heyday. RG3466.PH4-6
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries more than five hundred flour mills were built in ...
76-year-old man takes covered wagon along Oregon Trail to highlight historical significance
Caption: Ezra Meeker and his ox team at Chimney Rock, July 1906. NSHS RG0959.PH5-1
One hundred ten years ago in July 1906 Ezra Meeker stopped at Chimney ...
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