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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 ...
Canning the Way to Victory
Housewives were urged to “can Vegetables Fruit & the Kaiser too” in this 1919 publication by the National War Garden Commission.
During American participation in ...
The Haunted Cabin of James Conway
This sleepy farm community is said to have had within its boundary, a haunted cabin.
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A Haunted Cowboy
Unidentified cowboy (RG2608.PH003300)
The Old West has its share of ghostly lore, no matter what section of the country you study, and Nebraska is no exception. By ...
A Question of Business: Will Machines Replace Stenographers?
In 1877 Thomas A. Edison invented a machine that could record and reproduce the human voice using a tinfoil-covered cylinder. Edison’s phonograph, his trade name for his ...
The Alma Nightwalker
Source: 2 Chadron Journal 3/28/1902
Alma, Nebraska (RG3831.PH000001-000007) (above).
Alma, Nebraska, population about 1,100, is found near the Harlan ...
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