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Hybrid Corn Ads from the J.C. Robinson Seed Company
The Nebraska State Historical Society’s collections are full of fun advertising materials. I thought you might enjoy seeing a few examples advertising Funk’s hybrid ...
Mystery Grave in Boyd County
Like something out of detective fiction, a crew digging a trench found an unmarked grave in a rural field where no graves were known to exist. This 2000 discovery ...
Huff and Puff Not Enough to Destroy This Straw Building
Everyone has heard that necessity is the mother of invention. This is best exemplified in times of war, when the necessities of a country are tested to the maximum. ...
No Riding on the Sidewalk!
Tom Mooney, Curator of Manuscripts at History Nebraska ran across a booklet containing the Ordinances of the City of Beatrice, Nebraska from the year 1885 recently and ...
The Bachelors’ Protective Union of Kearney
Solomon D. Butcher depicted the cigar stand inside Kearney’s Midway Hotel, which hosted many social events sponsored by the Bachelors’ Protective Union. NSHS ...
The Death of Col. William McCord, First Nebraska Volunteer Infantry
April 6-7 (2012) marks the 150th anniversary of the 1862 Battle of Shiloh (aka Pittsburg Landing) in Tennessee, one of two major Civil War battles in which the First ...
John Falter Jazz
One of the most interesting things I’ve discovered going through our John Falter collection in the last few years is how and how much of his personal interests, friends, ...
Soldier’s Free Homestead Colony of Gibbon
On April 7, 1871, a Union Pacific emigrant train, bearing the members of the Soldier’s Free Homestead Colony, arrived at Gibbon siding in Buffalo County and switched off ...
A Titanic Centennial 2012
Emil Brandeis. NSHS RG2411.PHO-565 (at left).
Lately the news has been full of stories about the sinking of Titanic and the reissue of James Cameron’s movie about its ...
Rhubarb, the Pie Lover’s Delight
Rhubarb, a plant well known to pie and dessert lovers in Nebraska, has a long history in this state. Its use as a substitute for fruit in a newly settled country where ...
Touring Nebraska Orchards in 1872
Well before the emergence of Arbor Day as a state holiday dedicated to tree planting, southeast Nebraska had a number of thriving orchards.
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