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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Flashback Friday: How Shall We Make Beatrice Grow!”: Clara Bewick Colby and the Beatrice Public Library Association in the 1870s
1910 photo of the Beatrice Public Library, Beatrice, Nebraska.
The decade of the 1870s was a period of enormous growth and prosperity for the city of Beatrice. Founded ...
Flashback Friday: Weird Laws-Busted for Ugliness
The Lincoln Police Department has a history page on its website (including a lot of material they found at our K Street Government Records Facility). The site has photos ...
Flashback Friday: The First Frisbee Competition in Lincoln, 1957
You may have had one of these as a kid, a classic Wham-O Frisbee. Nebraska played a role in the history of this popular toy. In 1957, Lincoln hosted what was apparently ...
Flashback Friday: Omaha’s Bus Boycott of 1952-54
Years before the famous Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott of 1955-56, a group of Omahans led a bus boycott of their own. In this case, the target was the Omaha and ...
Flashback Friday: Where Is Hidden Paradise?
What did rural Nebraska travel and recreation look like in the early-to-mid twentieth century? A forested canyon at Long Pine became popular at a time when ...
Flashback Friday: Poor Niobrara!
The town of Niobrara, located along (or as shown here, in) the Missouri River in northeast Nebraska, flooded in 1881. NSHS RG2118-5-14
Poor Niobrara, ...
Flashback Friday: The Illustrator’s Pencil: John Falter from Nebraska to the Saturday Evening Post
John Falter was a Nebraska boy who made good. His artistic ability, drive, and genial nature helped him become one of the most successful American illustrators from the ...
Flashback Friday: J. C. Penney’s Middle Name Really Was “Cash”
Grand opening of a new J. C. Penney store in downtown Lincoln, November 16, 1950. NSHS RG2183-1950-1116-2
James Cash Penney wasn’t a Nebraskan, and he ...
Flashback Friday: The Gliddenites are Coming! Nebraska and the 1909 Glidden Tour
Contestants checking in at Kearney. The location is probably East Twenty-fifth Street (present U.S. 30). The Number 9 and 108 cars in front went on to win trophies. ...
Flashback Friday: From Our Special Correspondent, NSHS Press’s newest book
While many history textbook authors have erased humor from history, primary sources reveal that jokes and hardships together make up an important part of the past. Our ...
Flashback Friday: Our World-Traveling Beaver Effigy Bowl
One of the upcoming Nebraska Unwrapped: Selections from the Collections exhibit artifacts has traveled the world since the last time it was available for the public to ...
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