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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 ...
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 ...
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