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Marker Monday: Bancroft
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today, we're focusing on a marker that tells the story of Bancroft ...
Timeline Tuesday: Christmas at Fort Robinson, 1882
Fort Robinson Christmas party. RG1517-85-1
Fort Robinson provides the following holiday story of devotion and courage. It can be found in A Frontier Army ...
Timeline Tuesday: Cherry Picking at the Watson Ranch
Solomon D. Butcher depicted a crowd picking cherries on the Watson Ranch in 1908. NSHS RG2608-2289
In 1888, H. D. Watson established the historic Watson ...
Early 20th Century Letters to Santa from Pleasant Hill School in Keith County
The NSHS Archives holds a collection relating to the Maunder family from Hastings, Nebraska. The bulk of the collection consists of diaries kept by Edith Maunder and two ...
Flashback Friday: ‘Cream-of-the-crop of Nebraska girls’ – Miss Centennial Nebraska 1967
Miss Centennial Nebraska 1967 in a Centennial Parade in O'Neill.
By Kylie Kinley, Assistant Editor
It won her a crown so heavy it dented her forehead, a ...
Flashback Friday: Rifle of Cowboy and Gunslinger Mike Shonsey Donated to Nebraska History Museum
Mike Shonsey holding the rifle that was later donated to the Nebraska History Museum. RG4232-5-11
The last surviving participant in Wyoming’s 1892 Johnson ...
