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“Big, Ugly Red Brick Buildings”: The Fight to Save Jobbers Canyon – Daniel D. Spegel
"The use of warehouses will offend some citizens. They will ask how a warehouse can be beautiful, for only state capitols or things that had an aesthetic intent can be ...
Timeline Tuesday: Plenty of Work
Job hunters in Omaha during the booming 1880s had an easier time than those seeking work today. A reporter for the Omaha Daily Bee in the fall of 1888 "made the rounds ...
Too Much Beef, a complaint about football
The football schedules of early Nebraska teams sometimes matched or mismatched-high school and college teams and paired both with teams organized by other groups such ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Balloon Ascension 1910
Up, up, and away with today’s Throwback Thursday photograph. On September 1910, the city of Polk held a three day celebration for the fourth anniversary of their town ...
Recent Awards and Honors
It's been a busy autumn! In recent weeks the NSHS has recognized the generosity of a major donor, honored history makers at our annual banquet, and received a Nebraska ...
Sheep Ranch Photographs
These photographs provide an outstanding documentary record of ranching in northwestern Nebraska and eastern Wyoming at the end of the nineteenth century. In addition to ...
Booster Cards from Wausa, Nebraska
Wausa, Nebraska, originally named Thorson, was established in 1890. Its peak population reached a mere 754 in 1930. These postcards are typical examples of what were ...
Diamond Dick Dime Novels
Richard J. "Diamond Dick" Tanner Dime Novels
The first Beadle Dime Novel appeared in 1860 and initiated what one critic called "the greatest literary movement, in ...
Overland Emigrant Photographs
Photography was still in its infancy when emigrants began crossing the Great Plains to Oregon and California in the 1840s. Cumbersome cameras, fragile glass negatives, ...
Care, Preserve, Treat
In terms of preservation, the Ford Conservation Center in Omaha, Nebraska, is one of the state’s best-kept secrets—and we’re trying to change that! We are the only ...
Nebraska Football Spirit High in 1902
The football game between the Haskell Indian team and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
The University of Nebraska football team was on a winning streak in ...
Barns in Nebraska Territory
Few barns in Nebraska Territory were as substantial as the Elijah Filley Stone Barn, built in 1874 in Gage County. It is now on the National Register of Historic Places. ...
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