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 ...
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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 ...
Who Can Grow the Biggest Pumpkin?
Custer County Fair display at Broken Bow in 1886. RG2608-2964
Nothing says gardening success like a giant pumpkin. Displays of oversized tomatoes, potatoes, turnips, ...
George H. Payne and the American Valley of the Nile
George H. Payne
When Omaha businessman George H. Payne (1864-1937) formed the Payne Investment Company in the early 1910s, he launched what would become one of the ...
William F. Lillie’s Help for Picking Corn by Hand
Picking corn was once an unpleasant task, done by hand, for Nebraska farmers after a fall frost when the corn was ripe and dry enough. Until this Nebraskan device was ...
Finding Nebraska’s Ghost Towns
Ghost towns evoke images of dusty streets, ramshackle buildings, and tumbleweed. Popular imagination places them in the high peaks of the Rockies or ...
Nebraska Corn Helps Win the War
In a blog post a few years ago we showcased the gas station operated by Earl Coryell that pioneered the production and sale of an ethyl alcohol blended motor fuel. ...
From the Kitchen Table to Congress: Doris Royal’s Tax Campaign
“Do you realize I haven’t contributed a dime to this farm today according to the IRS?” Doris Royal told her husband after a twelve-hour day pitching hay and feeding ...
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 ...
John Nelson Collection
John Nelson was born in Harestad, Sweden, in 1864. He came to Wheeler County with his parents at the age of seventeen. From there he traveled to the gold fields of ...
Cornhuskers in Demand
Cornhusking was once an annual autumn activity on many Nebraska farms. Before the advent of the mechanical corn picker, the corn crop was harvested by hand and "shucked" ...
Hogzilla of Nebraska
Dazzler, a Poland China from Leigh, Nebraska, held the unofficial title of World's Largest Hog in 1928.
As a piglet, Dazzler ate normally but started to grow very ...
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