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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 ...
Buffalo Hunt at Niagara Falls
Capturing and shipping buffalo to Niagara Falls was no small task. NSHS RG3211-74 (above)
James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok, billed as “the most celebrated Scout and ...
John L. Teeters
John Lewis Teeters was born at Iowa City, Iowa, the son of Albert and Ellen Baker Wood Teeters. In 1886 he graduated from the University of Iowa with a bachelors degree. ...
An Artist’s View of the Fort Robinson Prisoner of War Camp
During World War II there were 126 Prisoner of War (POW) camps in the United States. Fort Robinson, Nebraska had one of these camps. By the end of the war, this camp ...
Dodge County Seat Removal, 1884
“There is no necessity for any bad blood over the county seat controversy,” said the Fremont Weekly Herald on August 21, 1884, in referring to a “re-location scheme” ...
“I Don’t Know What We’d Have Done Without the Indians”
A labor shortage during World War I left western Nebraska potato farmers facing the loss of their crop. They brought in Lakota (Sioux) Indians as ...
Go Big with Buttons
Cape, jacket, and skirt made by Nettie Vertrovsky of Crete and covered with buttons from her collection. (NSHS 7329-4,5) (at right).
I like the saying “Go Big or Go ...
Happy Days
There is just something about old drive-ins that brings out the nostalgia in people. In Lincoln, Ken Eddy’s was a legend. In 1952, Ken Lydic and Eddy Gold opened ...
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