Long Pine: Vacationing on a Budget in 1909
“Where to spend my vacation is a problem which hundreds of Omaha minds are puzzling over just now,” said the Omaha Daily News on July 18, 1909, in a ...
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On the Stage with Willa Cather
Willa Cather in costume as Peter Paragon in 1892 for a Union Girls’ Dramatic Club production of The Fatal Pin. NSHS RG2639-1-83 (at right).
The Red Cloud Opera House ...
How Do We Get There?
Today, if someone wants directions, they can just go online and find a map to practically anywhere. But this is just a recent development. Before the internet, we needed ...
Nebraska and the Civil War: Why the Story Matters
Nebraska has a rich Civil War legacy, according to James E. Potter, senior research historian at the Nebraska State Historical Society. Potter and Edith Robbins edited ...
Fun and Games
What kinds of indoor activities did you (or your parents) use to keep busy during those hot days of summer?
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Beating the Heat in the 1930s
The mid-1930s saw some of the hottest summer temperatures ever recorded in Nebraska. When Ruth Godfrey Donovan and her family moved to Lincoln in 1934, the ...
Wait A Minute Mr. Postman…
Before the Rural Free Delivery (RFD) mail system was developed, farm families had to pick up their mail in the nearest town which could be hours or days away. RFD ...
The Filley Ladies Aid Society Fundraising Quilt
8636-1, Source: Mrs. K.L. McGill, Lindsborg, Kansas A (right).
Recently, I’ve begun researching fundraising quilts. Many typical fundraising quilts have names ...
For Whom The Bell Tolls
In the early 1900s, this bell was used on a homestead in Otoe County to call farmhands to meals. In the 1920s, it was used by WJAG radio announcer, and future Nebraska ...
The Military Career of Butler B. Miltonberger
Born in North Platte in 1897, Butler B. Miltonberger began his military service as a private in June of 1916, when the National Guard was mobilized during the Mexican ...
Newly Discovered Diary Tells of Building the Transcontinental Telegraph
The transcontinental telegraph was a remarkable technological feat that had major consequences for the West and the nation as a whole. Yet relatively little has been ...
Pests on the Plains: The Potato Bug
Solomon D. Butcher’s photograph from about 1905 depicted boys working in a sweet potato field at the State Industrial School in Kearney. NSHS RG2608-749 (at ...
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