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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What We Found
Luella’s Lightning Shoe
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Carol Pearson was browsing an estate sale in California when she found an old shoe containing a yellowed newspaper clipping and ...
Native American Heritage: Artifact Collections
This is a look at our Native American artifacts and are just a handful of the collections that include information about the past and present influences of Native ...
Native American Heritage Month: Artifacts from Archeology
November is Native American Heritage Month. To celebrate, we will highlight Native American artifacts in our collections every Wednesday during the month of November. ...
Rare Marine Shell Artifacts Found in NSHS Archeological Collections
A photo of the runtee in the NSHS collections.
Two very uncommon artifacts made of Atlantic coast marine shell and called ‘runtees’ are in the NSHS ...
New artifact has ties to “The School Children’s Blizzard of 1888”
The Nebraska History Library recently received a donated book from a University Library in Kansas that was inscribed by Minnie Freeman Penney. Minnie is of course ...
Nebraska Unwrapped: What would you include?
Calling all would-be curators! What should the Nebraska State Historical Society be collecting? When the Nebraska History Museum in Lincoln re-opens on April 1st, it ...
Saving Face
Unusual objects have a way of showing up for treatment at the Ford Conservation Center. So in some ways the 69 masks by Nebraska artist Doane Powell were no surprise. ...
Unicameral Gavel
Gavel used at first Nebraska Unicameral
In the early 1930s, Nebraska U.S. Senator George Norris promoted the concept of the non-partisan, one-house legislature ...
Chadron’s Petrified Man
In 1893 John G. Maher concocted a hoax inspired by fossil discoveries. Maher commissioned a detailed concrete cast of a man, then buried it north of Chadron. It was ...
Armadillo Basket
Decline in Armadillo Population Linked to Fashionable Basket Increase
Armadillo baskets became popular after the 1902 New York World's Fair, where they were first ...
Well-traveled collections objects
These items were already heirlooms when they came to Nebraska in a covered wagon.
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