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. ...
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Flashback Friday: The Knighthood of Youth Club Taught Nebraska Children to Avoid the “Grouchy Swamp”
Prior to the Boy Scouts, there were several youth organizations based on King Arthur and the Arthurian legend. One such organization was the Knighthood of Youth. ...
Timeline Tuesday: The Chicken Scourge of Lincoln
Mrs. Neidacorn feeding her chickens, Buffalo County, 1903.
Town residents of one hundred or more years ago sometimes kept a garden, chickens, or even a ...
5 Tips for Caring for Your Home Movie Films
October is American Archives Month. To help celebrate and educate, (former) Curator of Audiovisual Collections Paul Eisloeffel has created 5 tips to help you care for ...
6 Tips for Caring for Your Home Videos
October is American Archives Month. Do you have home videos? Do you want to know how to preserve them? Check out (former) Curator of Audiovisual Collection Curator Paul ...
Flashback Friday: Frontier Acres Museum and a Historian 4-Her
Hannah Spiehs with her award-winning 4-H Heritage Project.
Arthur B is an award-winning historian, animated storyteller, and a dedicated researcher of ...
NSHS 2016 Awards Luncheon Results
Guests gather for the NSHS 2016 Annual Awards Luncheon.
Nebraska “history makers” gathered for the Nebraska State Historical Society awards luncheon ...
Timeline Tuesday: Grand Island Sugar Palace
Sugar beet harvest northeast of Lyman, Nebr., in the early 1920's. Beet pullers are at the far left, Ford trucks at center. RG2528-7-10
The Grand Island ...
Timeline Tuesday: Dust and Snow in 1935 Hastings
This view is of a dust storm approaching Alma, Nebraska, 1935. RG4290.PH0-002973
During the 1930s, Nebraska suffered one of the most serious droughts in ...
New Economic Impact Study Cites $79.8 million impact and 1,033 jobs from Nebraska Historic Tax Credit Projects
Burlington Station in Omaha before and after renovation.
Tax credits for historic preservation projects are producing big pay-offs. A new economic impact ...
Sod House Survey Finds “Bungalow-style” Soddies in Western Nebraska
David Murphy (Senior Research Architect) and Diane Laffin (Architectural Historian) stand in front of a six room sod house in Logan County, Nebraska, in Fall ...
Celebrating Native American Heritage Month – Manuscript Collections
Young men and women of a graduate class at Genoa Indian School posed for a picture with their diplomas in hand. RG4422.1-24
Genoa Indian School, ...
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