Christmas Trees Opposed by J. Sterling Morton
J. Sterling Morton (1832-1902) had a distinguished political career in this state, serving twice in the territorial legislature, as territorial secretary from 1858 to ...
Christmas
What We Found
Christmas with the Cumings
The Omaha Evening Bee, December 24, 1906, included a short reminiscence of several holiday celebrations in territorial Nebraska."
"Margaret Cuming, widow of Thomas B. ...
A Midsummer Christmas Eve
This Christmas card from 1880 depicted a warm-weather scene similar to one actually experienced by Omahans on December 24 in 1889. Freakish weather is not unique ...
The Santa Claus Survey, a Study in Child Psychology
Promotional button with picture of Santa Claus and slogan “Meet Me at Herpolsheimer’s,” a department store. NSHS 11571-32
In the fall of 1895 Frances E. Duncombe, a ...
Celebrating the Holidays with the Cumings
Thomas B. Cuming. NSHS RG2411-1134
Omaha in 1854 was a village without churches and social organizations, but Margaret Cuming, widow of Thomas B. Cuming, who was ...
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 ...
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: Christmas for a Nebraska Soldier
Andrew S. Wadsworth in 1898 went with the First Nebraska Regiment to the Philippines as a soldier in the first phase of the Spanish American War. He had previously been ...
Timeline Tuesday: Christmas in 1905
Although the most popular toys for the current holiday season are electronic, more than a century ago the toys in Santa's pack were likely to be mechanical. The Lincoln ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Santa’s Helpers from Fort Robinson, Christmas 1946
Santa is on his way! In today’s #ThrowbackThursday photo, a team of nine huskies pull Santa’s “sleigh” during a 1946 Christmas parade in Crawford, Nebraska. The huskies ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, 1949 Christmas Party
Party like it is 1949! In today’s #ThrowbackThursday photograph employees from the Lincoln Distributing Company celebrate the season at a Christmas party on December 18, ...
Yuletide in Knox County
"The holidays passed off at this place very enjoyably considering the hard times," the editor of the Niobrara Pioneer observed late in December, 1874. Pioneering in ...
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