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How High Is That Drift?
The four men standing between snow banks in Fairbury in 1912 illustrate the aftermath of a snowstorm described by the Fairbury Journal on March 1 as “about the heaviest ...
“We the People: Nebraska Stories of Civil Rights” Video on YouTube
Check out the NSHS’s new video on YouTube!
During the Nebraska History Museum’s "We the People": The Nebraska Viewpoint exhibit, visitors were invited to tell their ...
Previous Blog Posts Restored!
Blog posts from 2010-2013 are once again up and searchable! After our server was ruined by an electrical storm, posts from earlier than June 2013 were temporarily lost. ...
No Bryan County for Nebraska
Although all of Nebraska’s counties had been organized by 1913, not everyone was satisfied with their existing boundaries. County division ...
Nebraska’s Bones
Erwin Barbour’s family was very interested in old bones! From discovery to display, the family was a central part of Nebraska paleontology, expanding knowledge of the ...
Lovers and Guinea Pigs in the Old State Capitol
When the third and present capitol was built, the second was temporarily left in place and the new one, completed in 1932, was begun around it. ...
Treasures from Nebraska Museums
The NSHS works hard to collect and preserve Nebraska history, but we don’t do it alone. Historical organizations and museums dot our ninety-three counties and contain ...
The Keeley Cure for Grip
Dr. Leslie E. Keeley, 1892
Nebraska newspapers from the late nineteenth century include numerous advertisements for local Keeley hospitals or treatment centers for ...
George H. Payne and the American Valley of the Nile
George H. Payne
When Omaha businessman George H. Payne (1864-1937) formed the Payne Investment Company in the early 1910s, he launched what would become one of the ...
A Tombstone and a Blizzard
Chicago man who tried to drive a buckboard twenty miles through a blizzard on the Nebraska prairie and his narrow escape from death.
Many tales of ...
Snowbound on a Train
The passengers snowbound on the Missouri Pacific train between Eagle and Elmwood were released late Friday, but not through the clearing of the track.
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John T. Bell’s Shorthand in the Courtroom
Historian John T. Bell was also one of Nebraska’s earliest court stenographers. NSHS RG2411-384-a
Before the invention of recording and dictation machines, ...
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