Throwback Thursday Photo, Prohibition in Douglas County
The Untouchables of Douglas County. In today’s Throwback Thursday photograph, members of the Douglas County Sheriff Department pose with illegal alcohol and still after ...
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Fairmont Foods Company
Fairmont Foods Omaha plant fleet, 1920 (RG4218.PH3-69)
Fairmont Foods began as the Fairmont Creamery in Fairmont, Nebraska, in 1884. The creamery was a pioneer in ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, WAC Gladys Welch
In today’s Throwback Thursday photograph, WAC Gladys Welch sits smiling on an Army motorcycle at Fort Robinson. In 1943, a detachment of Woman’s Army Corp (WAC) was ...
J.W. Thompson Collection
J.W. Thompson posing by the mailbox of Henry G. Beye, who came to Frontier County by covered wagon around 1898. He, his wife Caroline Beisner, and his two sons Art and ...
Telephone Booth Sign
A simple phone booth sign reminds us that racial segregation and discrimination were very real here in Nebraska. Our history includes laws against interracial marriage, ...
Safe Haven Law, 2008
During the regular session in 2008 the Nebraska legislature passed LB157 commonly known as Nebraska's "safe haven" law. Safe haven laws are usually intended to provide ...
Vietnam Women’s Memorial Quilt
This quilt was owned by Judith Knopp of Lincoln, Nebraska, quilted by Donna Brittenham and Ann Davis, and painted by Arlene Koenig. Although no information is available ...
Nebraska Quarter Commemorative Set
On April 6, 2006, the Nebraska Quarter, with an image of Chimney Rock (a Nebraska State Historical Society Historic Site), was launched with much fanfare around the ...
Sierra Nevada Bunnell Smith
This quilt was made for Sierra Nevada Bunnell, also known as Vada, who was born in Ashland, Nebraska, in 1870. Family legend has it that her father took a covered wagon ...
Nebraska Cigar Boxes
Employees at Ross & Dryson Cigar Factory, Lincoln, Nebraska (RG2158.PH9-15)
Cigar making and cigar smoking in Nebraska reached their pinnacle shortly after the ...
Charles R. “Joe” Sterling
Charles R. "Joe" Sterling, raised near Weeping Water, Nebraska, joined the U.S. Navy in the late 1950s. In January 1968 he was a crew member on the ...
White Horse Ranch memorabilia
Cal and Ruth Thompson, 1938 (RG1714.PH21)
In 1917 twin brothers Cal and Hudson Thompson from West Point, Nebraska, bought a white stallion, "Old King," ...
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