What’s more ghoulish than a historic mask of a long-dead celebrity?
What’s more ghoulish than a historic mask of a long-dead celebrity? Any mask of a long-dead celebrity with wrinkles, tears, missing ears, or discoloration – or at least ...
Flashback Friday
What We Found
Flashback Friday: The Creation Of Nebraska Natural Resource District
You probably already know that Nebraska is the only state in the U.S. that has a nonpartisan, unicameral legislature, and is the only state where all electrical ...
Flashback Friday: Historic Soddies as Modern Dwellings
Can you imagine living in a sod house—not as a pioneer, but as a modern person? Some people do, and some e pioneer-era soddies survive as modern dwellings.
A ...
Flashback Friday: A Day in the Life of Downtown Omaha
Downtown Omaha, 1920s. Looking west on Douglas Street from the intersection of Sixteenth Street. The Brandeis Building, which still stands, is on the left. NSHS ...
Flashback Friday: The Great Omaha Train Robbery of 1909
This isn't the train that was robbed, but is one from that era: a Burlington train in Wilber, Nebraska, in 1910. NSHS RG0813-44
On a night train heading ...
Flashback Friday: Hiram P. Bennet and Nebraska’s First Territorial Legislature
Thomas B. Cuming, secretary of Nebraska Territory from 1854 to 1858. James W. Savage and John T. Bell, History of the City of Omaha, Nebraska (New York, ...
Flashback Friday: A 1930s Medical Romance
Medical student Joe Holoubek was dismayed the first time he saw a “hen medic” in a class at Mayo Clinic in 1937. But he got over his prejudice against women doctors and ...
Flashback Friday: The Ruins along Highway 2
The ruins of the potash plant at the former town of Hoffland, Sheridan County, Nebraska, July 9, 1955. NSHS RG2541-6-31
Highway 2 through the Sandhills ...
Flashback Friday: Building a Log Cabin on the Treeless Plains
Historian Everett Dick referred to the Great Plains as the “sod-house frontier,” and Nebraska photographer Solomon Butcher made many iconic images of soddies, but ...
Flashback Friday: Child Labor on the Farm
I am a little boy ten years old. I go to school when we have school, but we haven’t got any school now. It will begin soon. I helped to farm last spring; I plowed with ...
Flashback Friday: “I Don’t Know What We’d Have Done Without the Indians”
A labor shortage during World War I left western Nebraska potato farmers facing the loss of their crop. They brought in the Lakota (Sioux) as harvesters, ...
Flashback Friday: The Nebraska Statesman: The People Behind the Picture
Perhaps the most memorable thing about the Nebraska Statesman, published in Broken Bow from 1885 through the end of 1890, was Solomon D. Butcher's arresting photograph, ...
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