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Gold Cure for the Liquor Habit
From the Kearney Daily Hub, January 16, 1893 (at left).
Nebraska was home during the late nineteenth century to a number of local Keeley hospitals or treatment ...
A Midsummer Christmas Eve
This Christmas card from 1880 depicted a warm-weather scene similar to one actually experienced by Omahans on December 24 in 1889. Freakish weather is not unique ...
Murder at the Lincoln Hotel: The Irvine-Montgomery Case
The trial of William H. Irvine for the murder of Charles E. Montgomery in October of 1892 in Lancaster County District Court captured statewide (and ...
The Shoemaker’s Ashes
This example of a cinerary urn (at left) is from Hugo Erichsen’s The Cremation of the Dead (Detroit, 1887), published the year Edward Kuehl died.
“Edward Kuehl, one ...
Miles, Mules, and Men: The Forgotten Front of the Civil War
Note: the word Indian is used instead of Native American as it was the norm at the time.
Imagine your car. Now consider the amount of gas that it requires to keep it ...
E. R. Purcell Remembers Newspaper Career in Custer County
“I have recently rounded out fifty years of newspaper work in Custer County,” wrote Emerson R. Purcell in late 1942, shortly after the publication of the golden ...
How Shall We Make Beatrice Grow?
How does one transform a prairie town into a thriving cultural center? When a town desires to strengthen the moral fiber of its citizens, protect its young people from ...
The Sioux City & Pacific Railroad Company
The Library/Archives recently acquired this stock certificate for the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad Company.
Sioux City and Pacific Railroad Company ...
Carry Nation Debated Woman Suffrage in Seward
Carry A. Nation's anti-saloon activities in Nebraska in December 1901 and early 1902 took her not only to Lincoln and Omaha but to a number of smaller ...
A Lincoln Highway Radiator Emblem
11744-135 In Memory of Mary Hannah Hansen Lux and Clarence Burton Lux by the Gladys Marie Lux Museum Acquisition Endowment Established at the Nebraska State Historical ...
Spirit Photography
Unidentified woman and her attendant spirit c.1890.(RG3507.PH11-7)
With the discovery of photography, along with using the technique of double exposing a ...
Vampires of Nebraska
A frightening-if-true story with a supernatural twist comes out of the northwest county of Dawes, just around the Pine Ridge. The end of 1895 saw a number of brutal ...
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