Should Casler’s Grave Be Decorated?
By 1929 the ranks of Civil War veterans were thinning. Each year Nebraska cemeteries saw more old soldiers’ graves bedecked with flowers on Decoration Day, as Memorial ...
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New Archeology at Fort Robinson
Visitors to Fort Robinson State Park (near Nebraska’s northwest corner) see many original structures as well as replicas of important buildings that were torn down ...
Cherry Day at the Watson Ranch
In 1888, H. D. Watson established the historic Watson Ranch, at one time containing 8,000 acres, reaching from the fertile Platte Valley on the south to the rolling ...
The Milkman’s Horse
This milk delivery wagon, photographed in Lincoln on April 6, 1942, is a mixture of old and new: rubber tires, a glassed-in compartment for the driver—and a horse for ...
Let Freedom Ring: The Liberty Bell in Nebraska
The Liberty Bell came to Lincoln in July 1915. Photo from private collection.
Besides serving as a popular attraction and patriotic symbol at the two world’s fairs ...
The Ruins along Highway 2
Highway 2 through the Sandhills is one of Nebraska’s most scenic drives. Deep in the Sandhills lakes country, near the tiny town of Antioch, stand desolate, oddly-shaped ...
Bat and Bible
With the family Bible on father’s knee and a baseball bat under the youngest daughter’s chair, these Nebraska homesteaders are ready for anything Custer County can pitch ...
Why Are These Boys Laughing?
NSHS RG716-31-1 (above)
Frederick Blaine Humphrey, who photographed these laughing boys about 1915, was born in New York State in 1876, came to Lincoln with his ...
The Search for Better Babies
Third premium ribbon from a Better Babies contest at the 1940 Nebraska State Fair. NSHS 13161-9
“If better live stock, why not better babies?” asked a member of the ...
Plenty of Beer in Kearney
Readers of the Kearney Daily Hub on August 16, 1930, must have been startled to read that during the hot summer days, there was “Plenty of Beer to be Had in Kearney and ...
Oh, the Irony
The designer of this 1930 advertising stationery didn’t know it yet, but the expression “Thriving Thirties” was not going to catch on. Printed by the Epsten ...
Morton and Wilson, Nebraska Territory’s Ghost Counties
J. Sterling Morton, for whom Morton County was named, about 1859. NSHS RG1013.PH1-6
Today many Nebraskans live in counties known by different names than they were ...
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