Timeline Tuesday: Nebraska’s Dog and Pony Show
Welcome to our new weekly series, “Timeline Tuesday.” Every Tuesday, we’ll post a brief Nebraska history story. The late NSHS historian and Nebraska History Associate ...
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Flashback Friday: When Nebraska Schools Had Rubber Coats as Blackboards and Cowchips for Heat
Lakeland sod high school is under construction. Summer 1934 RG4290.PH0-001505
Our Sod Schoolhouse Marker Monday and Throwback Thursday posts were so ...
Marker Monday: Mallalieu University, Red Willow County
The University, named for Bishop Mallalieu, was opened in September, 1886, with an enrollment of sixty students.
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Flashback Friday Encore: Comics, Cartoons, Drawings and Doodles
The Library/Archives holds the collections of various Nebraska artists and cartoonists. One such collection is that of Guy Spencer, cartoonist for the Omaha World-Herald ...
Flashback Friday: The Tragedies and Successes of the Genoa Indian School
“Nine o’clock taps and the wailing cry of the little boys as they stood under the sleeping porches with faces to the brick walls are two sounds that have ...
The Indians as I Knew Them by Grace Stenberg Parsons – Memories of the Genoa Indian School
This manuscript was written by Grace Stenberg Parsons. As the daughter of the blacksmithing instructor at the Genoa Indian School in Genoa, Nebraska, Parsons observed ...
Timeline Tuesday: Better Baby Contests
Caption: Photographer Emanuel Wolfe depicted several finalists in a Nebraska better baby contest, each wearing a prize ribbon. NSHS RG2836.PH0-532
"If ...
Throwback Thursday: The White Horse Ranch in Naper, Nebraska
Young woman jumping a horse with no saddle or bridle at the White Horse Ranch, 1953. [RG1714-15]
Giddy up! Today’ s Throwback Thursday photo takes us to ...
Wild Weather Wednesday: Columbus, Nebr. 1905 Flood
Welcome to Wild Weather Wednesdays! We'll showcase a significant weather event in Nebraska's history. Sometimes the post will be a photo and a description, and sometimes ...
Flashback Friday Encore: Happy Birthday to the Arcadia Township Library
October 2nd marks 99 years since the opening of the Arcadia Township Library in Valley County. The library was designed by the Lincoln firm of Fiske and Meginnis. It was ...
Timeline Tuesday: Barns in Nebraska Territory
Caption: Photo of the Filley Stone Barn, Gage County, taken on October 20, 1936 by Ruth Stanhope Brugh. NSHS RG0813.668
"Why is it there are no barns in ...
Timeline Tuesday: Lurking in every Coca Cola glass is an ‘evil principle’
Caption: Interior of Fred Trute’s liquor store, Seward, Nebraska. RG2536-5-10
Readers of The Nebraska Issue (Lincoln), official organ of the Anti-Saloon ...
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