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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 ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Burwell Rodeo
Yee Haw! It’s Rodeo Week in Nebraska. Today’s Throwback Thursday Photo features Shadey James on Grasshopper the Nebraska’s Big Rodeo in Burwell, ca. 1925. The Burwell ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Neligh Race Car
Today’s Throwback Thursday photo has our motor running. Two unidentified young men pose with their souped up Essex Motors automobile on the dirt race track in Neligh, ...
Nebraska Unwrapped: What would you include?
Calling all would-be curators! What should the Nebraska State Historical Society be collecting? When the Nebraska History Museum in Lincoln re-opens on April 1st, it ...
On This Day: Welcoming Displaced Persons
Governor Val Peterson, center, reviewing relief plans during the blizzard of 1949.
On February 4, 1948, the Honorable Val Peterson, Governor of the State of Nebraska, ...
New artifact has ties to “The School Children’s Blizzard of 1888”
The Nebraska History Library recently received a donated book from a University Library in Kansas that was inscribed by Minnie Freeman Penney. Minnie is of course ...
Timeline Tuesday: Butter Churning
Fairmont Creamery, butter packing, Omaha plant, 1911. RG4218-1-16
Well into the nineteenth century butter was made chiefly by hand using butter churns, ...
The Omaha Daily Bee Rages Against Comic Valentines
A Valentine's Day portrait of a child sitting in a large heart with an arrow through it, Omaha 1934. RG3882-49-0173-3
Although Valentine's Day and the ...
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