A Nebraska Goose
Straw stuffed goose decoy made sometime between 1941 and 1958 by John Albert Lundgren, one of Nebraska’s few nationally marketed decoy manufacturers. Patent number on ...
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What We Found
Love Sugar? I’ve Got Just the Hospital for You
With that title I bet you thought this blog was going to be about the evils of sugar consumption. Nope, we’ll leave that to the countless “health” blogs. I’ve got ...
A Prisoner’s Plea
By Deb Arenz, Senior Museum Curator
(April 2011)
The Society has a large collection of Nebraska-made/Nebraska-themed sheet music. While cataloging some a ...
The Value of a Simple Work Shirt
Think about the clothes you save–what are they? Chances are your family saves things like wedding dresses, christening gowns, military uniforms and other fancy or ...
Go Big with Buttons
Cape, jacket, and skirt made by Nettie Vertrovsky of Crete and covered with buttons from her collection. (NSHS 7329-4,5) (at right).
I like the saying “Go Big or Go ...
That time Superman mixed up Omaha and Lincoln
Superman has been a lot of places, so when DC fans in Omaha were promised that he'd be visiting their city they were understandably excited. It's too bad he ended up ...
Collecting the Here and Now
As I mentioned in a blog post a few weeks back about a Superman comic book, the Nebraska State Historical Society collects and cares for hundreds of thousands of items ...
New Archeology at Fort Robinson
Visitors to Fort Robinson State Park (near Nebraska’s northwest corner) see many original structures as well as replicas of important buildings that were torn down ...
Treasures from Nebraska Museums
The NSHS works hard to collect and preserve Nebraska history, but we don’t do it alone. Historical organizations and museums dot our ninety-three counties and contain ...
Treasures from Nebraska Museums
The NSHS works hard to collect and preserve Nebraska history, but we don’t do it alone. Historical organizations and museums dot our ninety-three counties and contain ...
Previous Blog Posts Restored!
Blog posts from 2010-2013 are once again up and searchable! After our server was ruined by an electrical storm, posts from earlier than June 2013 were temporarily lost. ...
How is this varnish can tied to the founding of Lincoln?
This early twentieth century varnish can was donated to the NSHS.
This is an Autograph brand pure oil can from Western Glass and Paint Company, circa ...
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