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 ...
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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: 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: 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 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: 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 ...
Flashback Friday: Highway Archeology Employee Spotlight
We’re introducing a new feature of our blog called “Employee Spotlight.” Four times a year, we’ll interview a NSHS employee and showcase their projects and explain the ...
Nebraska’s Good Roads Movement
“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link and a road is a little better than its deepest mud hole.” – Isaac B. Potter, The Gospel of Good Roads, ...
Flashback Friday: Why Small-town Rodeos are One of Nebraska’s Greatest Treasures
By Kylie Kinley, Assistant Editor
I have ridden a horse maybe three times in my life. I don’t know how to throw a rope. I have been head-butted, stepped on, ...
Flashback Friday: Why Cowboy Gun Battles Were Often Shots in the Dark
Sidney, Nebraska, circa late 1870s. NSHS RG3315-40
Associate Editor and black powder enthusiast Jim Potter wrote this blog post. One staple of TV or movie ...
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