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Flashback Friday: Photographer C. W. Bonham’s North Platte Valley
A Scottsbluff man was browsing an estate sale in 2014 when he noticed a box full of glass plate photographic negatives. Many were broken, but twenty-six were whole and ...
Timeline Tuesday: Union Pacific Railroad
In October of 1934 the Union Pacific Railroad's new Pullman-equipped, six-car speed train attempted a new coast-to-coast record. Dashing from Los Angeles to New York in ...
Marker Monday: Nebraska Statehood Memorial
Location
1627-1699 H St, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska
Marker Text
From 1854 to 1867 the seat of territorial and state government was in Omaha. In 1867 the ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Growing Celery in the Platte Valley
The family of William Kelley pose among the rows of their celery field. The Keller’s farm was located six miles west of Kearney on an island in the Platte River. ...
Flashback Friday: A Gentleman’s Game: Nineteenth-Century Soccer in Omaha
What Americans call “soccer” is one of several sports that evolved from games played for centuries in Europe, loosely called “football.” The history of the sport in ...
Timeline Tuesday: Artificial Stone
The real beginnings of the modern concrete block industry did not begin until the advent of Harmon S. Palmer's cast-iron machine for making such blocks, patented in ...
Marker Monday: Franklin Academy
Location
Park Dr, Franklin, Franklin County, Nebraska
View this marker's location 40.101066, -98.95265
View a map of all Nebraska historical markers, click ...
Women of the Great War: WWI Posters
By David L. Bristow, Editor
World War I was fought not only with weapons but also with pictures and words. After the United States declared war on Germany in April ...
Honoring History Makers at the NSHS Annual Meeting
Join us in Omaha on Thursday, October 12, 5:30 to 8:00 p.m., to recognize individuals who’ve made history by helping to preserve it.
This year’s NSHS 2017 Annual ...
Thomas E. Kimball Collection
The Kimball family celebrate 4th of July at their home in Wakefield, Nebraska, ca. 1900. (RG5212.PH2-11)
The Thomas E. Kimball Collection provides a unique view of ...
Archeology of Nebraska’s Territorial Period (1854-1867)
Looking for a new outlook on our territorial history? See what archeology reveals about the new people who came into Nebraska beginning in 1854. Five territorial-era ...
Square Dance outfits
Joan (Hees) Clare and Lloyd Hees of Lincoln wore these typical square dance outfits of the 1980s and 1990s. Couples coordinated their outfits through matching fabric ...
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