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The Story of Omaha Police Fingerprint Expert Emily Byram

Trained by the Army during World War I, Emily Byram Ruffner became one of the first female fingerprint examiners in United States law enforcement. As the United ...

Marker Monday: Cather Childhood Home

Marker Text Built ca. 1876, this is the house in which Willa Cather lived from 1884 to 1890. She describes it in “Old Mrs. Harris,” in “The Best Years,” and in ...

Yutan Tornado – March 23, 1913

Most Nebraskans remember the devastating tornado outbreak of March 23, 1913, for the destruction it wrought in Omaha, but there were other communities devastated by the ...

The Destruction of Omaha’s Easter Sunday Tornado

While it was absolutely the worse off, Omaha was not the only Nebraska town to get hit by a tornado that day; a total of seven tornados touched down that day. We also ...

Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, First Native American Woman Physician

  If you could travel back in time to October 3, 1910, you might see Dr. Picotte opening the door to welcome White Horse, in need of advice on building a new ...

Victorian Wedding Slippers See New Life

A pair of late-19th-century wedding slippers recently came to the Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center for treatment. These shoes are part of the Frontier Army Museum's ...

Flashback Friday: History of the Omahawks

  From 1972 until 1975 the Kansas City-Omaha Kings, a member of the National Basketball Association (NBA), played a handful of home games in Omaha’s Civic ...

Throwback Thursday: High School Boys Basketball Teams

In recognition of the NSAA State Boys Basketball Championships, this week's Throwback Thursday features photographs of multiple Nebraska high school boys basketball ...

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