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 ...
collections
What We Found
John Falter Jazz
One of the most interesting things I’ve discovered going through our John Falter collection in the last few years is how and how much of his personal interests, friends, ...
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. ...
Through the Lens of Wallace Rhodes
Family portrait of John Wallace Rhodes (commonly called Wallace), his wife Rubina "Ruby" Rhodes, and their daughter Phyllis J. Rhodes [RG1900.PH3-7]
Phyllis Rhodes ...
The Delzell Family of Peru, Nebraska
William Newton Delzell, Dean of the Nebraska State Normal School at Peru, Nebraska, from 1921-1938.
William Newton Delzell (1868-1940) was Dean of the Nebraska ...
Beatrice Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
Before automobiles and radios made the world a smaller place, it could be challenging for adults in rural areas to gain access to the kinds of cultural and educational ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Grace Abbott medal
Grace Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska, in 1878. After graduating from Grand Island College in 1898, she received a master's degree in political science from ...
The Mystery of the William A. Wolfe Atlas Collection
Forty years ago on August 1, 1977, I started my career in the library of the Nebraska State Historical Society. The Library was located on the second floor of the ...
Square Dance outfits
Joan (Hees) Clare and Lloyd Hees of Lincoln wore these typical square dance outfits of the 1980s and 1990s. Couples coordinated their outfits through matching fabric ...
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