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Plenty of Work
Solomon D. Butcher’s photograph depicted workmen laying a concrete sidewalk. NSHS RG2608-2952 (left).
Job hunters in Omaha during the booming 1880s had an easier time ...
Summer along the Trail
Cavalrymen escorting the overland stagecoach, a duty that Scherneckau often described. From Frank A. Root and William E. Connelley, The Overland Stage to California ...
The Wad Room
One of the great things about working in the Collections Department at the Nebraska History Museum is getting to work with the new materials coming into ...
The Textile Industry Goes to War
Bette (left) and Lois Rathburn of Lincoln in dresses typical of the 1940s celebrate the end of World War II. NSHS R234-173
How did the 1930s and 1940s affect feminine ...
Good Guys Wear White Hats
10645-2029; Source: John P. Falter Collection (top left) 10645-2030; Source: John P. Falter Collection (top right).
Those of you who have been following our blog, ...
World War II food rationing
Sugar rationing ended in the U.S. in June 1947 after nearly five years of shortages brought about by World War II. Here's a ration book from the Nebraska History ...
A Sad Shamrock Saga
Badly Damaged Shamrocks
Mr. John W. Paul related a very good St. Patrick’s day incident which happened in Boston one year ago. A certain Mr. McClanahan, who had been ...
Nebraska Nursery and Seed Catalogs
With our first taste of spring, many of us are dreaming of warmer days and planning our gardens for the upcoming season. There’s nothing like a stack of colorful seed ...
Roping Elk
James E. Farley about 1904. NSHS RG2608-2116 (at left).
Cowboys occasionally roped more than cattle or horses, as James E. Farley recalled in Solomon D. Butcher’s ...
Happy Birth-Arbor-Earth Day
Black and White Photograph of Joy Morton II, Mark Morton, Betty Morton, Mrs. Joy Morton, Joy Morton, and Sterling Morton Standing in Front of the J. Sterling Morton ...
One of Those Days
You think you’ve had ”one of those days”? Consider this from the 1875 Omaha Bee, available on microfilm in the newly re-opened Reference Room at the NSHS headquarters, ...
Dr. Picotte’s House
The Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte House, located at 100 Taft Street in Walthill, is a two-story home was built by Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte (c. 1865 – 1916) in 1907 ...
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