Spotlight on a Star: Conserving the Art of Actor Sig Arno
The career of actor Siegfried “Sig” Arno started in his native Germany in the 1910s and eventually spanned more than 100 film and theater roles across Europe and the ...
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Frontier Fences
By David L. Bristow
It takes a good fence to keep livestock out of a farmer's crops or garden. In the heavily wooded eastern United States, this was ...
Marker Monday: The 100th Meridian
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The 100th longitudinal line west of Greenwich was the major goal set by Congress in building the first transcontinental railroad. ...
The Harold Trombla Mystery
Here at the Nebraska State Historical Society Archives, staff receive questions and requests for information on a wide variety of topics. We recently received a request ...
Nebraska History Spotlight: Museum of American Speed
Preserving America’s Automotive Heritage: Inside the Museum of American Speed
Nestled in Lincoln, Nebraska, the Museum of American Speed is dedicated to preserving ...
ArchivesSpace: Database Improvements
Some of you may have noticed that we have a new way to search our collections online – through a database called ArchivesSpace. The Nebraska State Historical Society ...
The Men of South Omaha, 1892
By the 1890s South Omaha had a reputation as a rough, violent place. But Omaha World-Herald columnist Elia Peattie saw something else:
“South Omaha is ...
Marker Monday: Oketo Cutoff
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From October 1862 until March 1863 stagecoaches of the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express passed near here along the Oketo ...
Up-Close and Personal: NSHS Collections at the Nebraska History Museum
Want to see some of Nebraska’s archives up close? Come check out the Nebraska History Museum! Archives play an important role in interpreting our history, and quite a ...
Marker Monday: Antioch Potash Boom-Town
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past.
Today, we're focusing on Antioch, the Nebraska ghost town that ...
Preserving the Albert Beguin Collection
Our Photograph and Audiovisual Curator, Matthew Mickelson, has been hard at work this last year cleaning, repairing, and digitizing the Albert Beguin collection. ...
Nebraska’s 1898 World’s Fair
By David L. Bristow, Editor
More than 2.6 million people attended the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition. Held from June through October ...
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