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Throwback Thursday Photo, Good Old Man
Today’s Throwback Thursday photo features Ta-ou-ka-han or Good Old Man, a member of the Omaha Tribe, singing the Corn Song into a wax cylinder recording device in 1905. ...
1901 Kearney Street Fair
The Nebraska History Museum currently has an exhibit featuring the work of Solomon Butcher, open until June 1, 2020. Visit the museum and see some of Butcher's most ...
Inherent Vice
Imagine being responsible for a museum collection and coming across an artifact that appears to be melting before your eyes! That is exactly what happened at the Ford ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Taffy Pull
School’s out for summer! Today’s Throwback Thursday photo features the students of Saline County’s District 51 have a taffy pull on the last day of school in May 1914. ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Decoration Day
In today’s Throwback Thursday photo, the residents of Comstock, Nebraska celebrates Decoration Day in about 1910. Decoration Day began shortly after the Civil War as a ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Bicycles in Alliance, NE
May is National Bike Month. Today’s Throwback Thursday Photo features three men on the streets of Alliance, Nebraska enjoying the benefits of cycling in July 1891. The ...
John Nelson Collection
John Nelson was born in Harestad, Sweden, in 1864. He came to Wheeler County with his parents at the age of seventeen. From there he traveled to the gold fields of ...
John Anderson Collection
John Anderson was a photographer who worked primarily at Fort Niobrara in Nebraska and on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. Born in Sweden in 1869, he came to ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, KOIL Foley Artist
Crash! Boom! Bang! Today’s Throwback Thursday photograph features a foley artist at work creating sound effects at the Omaha radio station KOIL on August 24, 1937. ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Newspaper Dress
Extra! Extra! Read all about our Throwback Thursday Photograph. This unidentified young woman gives new meaning to “being in the news.” She is wearing a dress made from ...
Saving Face
Unusual objects have a way of showing up for treatment at the Ford Conservation Center. So in some ways the 69 masks by Nebraska artist Doane Powell were no surprise. ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, McKinley Students’ Birdhouses
Spring is here! In today’s Throwback Thursday photograph features a large group of students from McKinley School posed on the steps of Science Hall on the University of ...
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