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Try These Substitutes for Brandy
This undated photograph depicted William Young’s saloon in Omaha. NSHS RG2341-1266
Readers of The Nebraska Issue (Lincoln), official organ of the ...
The Military Buildup to Wounded Knee
More than five thousand U.S. Army officers and soldiers were mobilized in the weeks leading up to the Wounded Knee Massacre. The troops – sent to subdue “hostile” ...
Nebraska Photographers in Convention
Members of the Nebraska Photographers Association in Lincoln Park on May 14, 1903. NSHS RG2158-549
"Lincoln today and for several days will be in the hands of the ...
Treasures from the Nebraska History Museum in Nebraska History News
George Churley with Stumpy and Deputy Duke, two of the original Cartoon Corral puppets.
Not too long ago, we featured “Treasures from Nebraska Museums” in ...
Muddy Nebraska
Stuck in the mud near Bancroft, Nebraska. NSHS RG3334-1-56
It’s small consolation if you ever get stuck in the mud, but the fact is Nebraska has come a ...
No More Ten-cent Shaves
This photograph of two barbers and their shop is from the Nebraska State Historical Society’s Dundy County Collection. NSHS RG3907-1-5
The idea of a man shaving ...
Steamboats Impractical in an Age of Railroads
Steamboat Red Cloud, 1873-1882. NSHS RG4997-69
The “Golden Age” of steamboating on the Missouri River was between 1850 and 1860. The outbreak of the Civil War ...
Cigarettes in the Boudoir: Omaha’s Female Smokers in 1889
Nathaniel Currier’s 1847 lithograph depicted a reclining woman smoking a cigarette. NSHS 10645-4273
“From London comes the assurance that the duchess of Marlborough ...
The Changing Image of George Armstrong Custer
Lt. Col. George Custer was once considered “the model of a Christian warrior.” In the 1870s, poets called him heroic, splendid and glorious. One magazine editor called ...
Beauty at the Keyboard
Solomon D. Butcher’s photograph depicted C. W. Roush, principal of the Broken Bow Business College, and his stenographer, Mable Holcomb, both with typewriters. NSHS ...
Taking the Plunge at Anoka
The Anoka Plunge Bath. RG3153-1-10
The “Hot Mineral Plunge Bath” at Anoka, Boyd County, fed by an artesian well, was constructed in 1907, just four years ...
Buffalo Bones Once Plentiful on Nebraska Prairie
Unloading buffalo bones at rail terminal, Dakota Territory, in 1885. NSHS RG1204-3-2
The slaughter of the buffalo left the prairie marked by millions of tons of ...
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