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Flashback Friday: The Nebraska Statesman: The People Behind the Picture
Perhaps the most memorable thing about the Nebraska Statesman, published in Broken Bow from 1885 through the end of 1890, was Solomon D. Butcher's arresting photograph, ...
Flashback Friday: “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 the Lakota (Sioux) as harvesters, ...
Flashback Friday: Child Labor on the Farm
I am a little boy ten years old. I go to school when we have school, but we haven’t got any school now. It will begin soon. I helped to farm last spring; I plowed with ...
Marker Monday: Historic Lodgepole Creek Valley
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Here is the valley of Lodgepole Creek through which passed historic trails, telegraph lines, and railroads. The famed Pony Express followed the ...
Marker Monday: Burton’s Bend
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Note: Historical markers not only designate historic places, they sometimes are historic artifacts themselves. It's difficult to tell complex ...
Marker Monday: First Presbyterian Church of St. Paul
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The congregation was organized in 1879, eight years after the first homestead claim was filed in Howard County. The first church at this location, a ...
Timeline Tuesday: Bird Day
Bird Day was first observed on May 4, 1894, in Pennsylvania, and by 1910 was widely celebrated, often in conjunction with Arbor Day. Observances of the two holidays ...
Timeline Tuesday: Easter Cards
The history of modern greeting cards began in 1843 in England with the design of the first Christmas card. Easter cards were introduced somewhat later, but by 1887 ...
Timeline Tuesday:The Davey Ghost
In 1861 a Boston photographer named William H. Mumler discovered that additional images would appear if a glass photographic plate was exposed twice. Some believed that ...
Timeline Tuesday: Brainerd and Furnas at the Fair
H. A. Brainerd. From Portrait and Biographical Album of Lancaster County, Nebraska (1888).
In 1926 journalist and Nebraska press historian Henry Allen Brainerd ...
Timeline Tuesday: April Fools in Omaha in 1886
One Omaha barber was the victim of an elaborate April Fool's prank in 1886. John Nelson's photograph depicts a barber shaving a customer with a straight razor during an ...
Flashback Friday: Building a Log Cabin on the Treeless Plains
Historian Everett Dick referred to the Great Plains as the “sod-house frontier,” and Nebraska photographer Solomon Butcher made many iconic images of soddies, but ...
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