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Throwback Thursday Photo, Pumpkins on the Prairie
The Garness family pose in front of their sod home in Custer County for Nebraska photographer Solomon D. Butcher in 1887. Next to the family is a big pile of large ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, FERA Canning Center in Norfolk
Who has been doing some canning this fall? Today’s Throwback Thursday photograph features a group of men seated a table preparing beans for canning. The men worked under ...
World Day of Audiovisual Heritage, 2017
American Archives Month, October 2017
UNESCO’s World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, October 27, 2017
Audiovisual documents, such as films, radio and television ...
Celebrate Home Movie Day today!
Archives Month, October 2017
Home Movie Day is a celebration of amateur filmmaking held annually. For some, it means attending a home movie screening ...
Discover NSHS Government Records
American Archives Month, October 2017
Good news military history and genealogy enthusiasts! The indexing of the early admission case files (1887-1936) for the Grand ...
Flashback Friday: Then The Burnings Began: Omaha’s Urban Revolts and the Meaning of Political Violence
In August 2014 many Americans were alarmed by the scenes of fire and destruction following the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Despite the prevalence of ...
Discover the Audiovisual Collection
October is Archives Month
You may know History Nebraska for its outstanding collections of photographs, manuscripts and public records, library materials or museum ...
Discover the Museum Collections
American Archives Month, October 2017
In celebration of Archives Month, this October we are talking about how you can access many of the wonderful materials in the ...
Timeline Tuesday: Beauty and the Beast
The Red Cloud Opera House on February 4, 1888, was the scene of an amateur theatrical entitled Beauty and the Beast. Small-town opera houses hosted such entertainments ...
Timeline Tuesday: Beating the Heat in 1906
In the days before air conditioning, getting a good night's sleep during the heat of summer was sometimes a problem. One obvious solution was to sleep outdoors. ...
University of Omaha Football Photographs
Since 2006, October has been designated American Archives Month to raise awareness about the value and work of archives and archivists. To celebrate, we are sharing ...
Discover the History Nebraska Manuscript Collections
Lincoln Sport Plane, blueprint drawing [RG3726.AM: Encil Chambers]
For this October’s celebration of Archives Month, we would like to tell you a little more about ...
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