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The Bachelors’ Protective Union of Kearney
Solomon D. Butcher depicted the cigar stand inside Kearney’s Midway Hotel, which hosted many social events sponsored by the Bachelors’ Protective Union. NSHS ...
No Riding on the Sidewalk!
Tom Mooney, Curator of Manuscripts at History Nebraska ran across a booklet containing the Ordinances of the City of Beatrice, Nebraska from the year 1885 recently and ...
Huff and Puff Not Enough to Destroy This Straw Building
Everyone has heard that necessity is the mother of invention. This is best exemplified in times of war, when the necessities of a country are tested to the maximum. ...
Mystery Grave in Boyd County
Like something out of detective fiction, a crew digging a trench found an unmarked grave in a rural field where no graves were known to exist. This 2000 discovery ...
Hybrid Corn Ads from the J.C. Robinson Seed Company
The Nebraska State Historical Society’s collections are full of fun advertising materials. I thought you might enjoy seeing a few examples advertising Funk’s hybrid ...
Todd Storz: Radio for a New Era
Todd Storz, owner of Omaha’s KOWH, saw music as opportunity. He showed the world how to harness music and make it profitable in a world more interested in visual ...
The First Nebraska Regiment’s Baptism of Fire, 1862
Counterattack of Gen. Lew Wallace’s division at the Battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, February 15, 1862. From Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, March 15, 1862 ...
Seeing Lincoln: Nebraska Civil War Veterans Remember
This colorful GAR badge is from Hastings, Nebraska. NSHS 13000-3348 (at left).
Abraham Lincoln’s birthday in 1925 was celebrated by the History Club of Kearney State ...
Collecting the Here and Now
As I mentioned in a blog post a few weeks back about a Superman comic book, the Nebraska State Historical Society collects and cares for hundreds of thousands of items ...
Groundhog Day in Nebraska
From the Kearney Daily Hub, January 30, 1932. “No doubt many of our readers in this locality are close observers of ‘signs,’” said the Nebraska Advertiser on February ...
At Work, Five Miles a Day, On a Scooter, In a Pipe?
If you asked most Americans what “traveling the hard way” was, what sort of answers would you get? Biking? Walking? Swimming? At NSHS, we have discovered another method ...
That time Superman mixed up Omaha and Lincoln
Superman has been a lot of places, so when DC fans in Omaha were promised that he'd be visiting their city they were understandably excited. It's too bad he ended up ...
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