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Hunger’s Coffin
By the start of the twentieth century the pain of death had been softened for many Americans. Professional undertakers, rather than family members, laid out and attended ...
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 ...
Bedbugs
The current resurgence of bedbugs in the United States has brought the little pests once again into the limelight after decades of obscurity. Our pioneer ancestors, ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, The Hawk
And now a word from our sponsors. Today’s Throwback Thursday photo takes us to the set of KMTV’s the Hawk. The Hawk, played by Gary Healy, was a masked superhero who ...
John Gregory Bourke Photographs of Native Americans
Captain John Gregory Bourke, ca. 1893 [RG2955.PH000002]
John Gregory Bourke was born in Philadelphia in 1846. He distinguished himself at the Civil War battle of ...
Eli Ricker Wounded Knee interviews
Eli Seavey Ricker was born in Maine in 1843. Following his service in the Civil War with Company I, 102nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, he became a farmer, ...
The Mystery of the William A. Wolfe Atlas Collection
Forty years ago on August 1, 1977, I started my career in the library of the Nebraska State Historical Society. The Library was located on the second floor of the ...
Ice Cream with the Nelsons
The Nelson family of Ericson, Nebraska enjoy dishes of ice cream in about 1910. This photograph is part of the John Nelson Collection.
John Nelson was born in ...
Native American Wild West Show Contracts
W. H. Barten served as a teacher at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota from 1891 to 1902, when he relocated to Gordon, Nebraska, and opened a mercantile store. ...
Exaggeration Postcards
Postcards, like photographs and moving images, have been used to document a locality's history. In rare cases, "exaggeration" postcards were used to advertise ...
“Wild Bill” Hickok Court Documents
James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok (1837-76), a native of Illinois, relocated to Kansas in 1855 and joined the free state forces. Before and during the Civil War, Hickok ...
“Free School Advocate” Newspaper
First published by the students of Omaha High School in December of 1859, The Free School Advocate is the earliest known example of school journalism in Nebraska. The ...
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