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
What We Found
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 ...
Flashback Friday: How Hall County WWI Doughboys Communicated with the Home Front
"If there is one thing the German fears more than anything else it is the bayonet charge," wrote an employee of the Keystone View Company as part of a little essay on ...
Flashback Friday: Rare Photos from a Troubled Time Featured in Newest NSHS Book
Last Days of Red Cloud Agency: Rare Photos from a Troubled Time In the final year of his life, longtime NSHS curator Thomas R. Buecker investigated and wrote about a ...
Flashback Friday – New album showcases Nebraska history and culture through song
What do Bruce Springsteen, Justin Bieber, the Zac Brown Band, and Peru State English professor Dr. Dan Holtz have in common? They’ve all sung songs about Nebraska. But ...
Flashback Friday: A District Judge with No Law Degree Crushes Nebraska Organized Crime
Official portrait of Judge Joseph William Woodrough
In 1897, a twenty-four-year-old attorney came to Omaha to start his career in earnest. He lacked a law ...
Flashback Friday Encore: Town of Lemoyne Sacrificed for Lake McConaughy, 1941
Lemoyne population sign, ca. 1938 [NSHS RG5995.AM, B22, V1]
This year marks 75 years since the completion of Kingsley Dam and the creation of Lake ...
Flashback Friday Encore: Lemoyne Veterans Honored
Lemoyne Veterans Honored, December 1, 1945 [RG5995.AM, B22, V1]
Last week we showcased a poem and a recent addition to our collections, the Cora Baumann ...
Flashback Friday Encore: Selections from the Cora Baumann Collection
As mentioned in an earlier post, the Cora Baumann collection contains a wealth of information about Lemoyne and the surrounding area near what is now Lake McConaughy. Of ...
Flashback Friday: “Uncle Sam’s Sharpshooters”: Military Marksmanship at Fort Omaha and Bellevue, 1882-1894
In this 1888 image of the Bellevue rifle range, the men are firing from prone or sitting positions. The targets appear in the distance, with the enlisted men's camp ...
Flashback Friday: When Nebraska Schools Had Rubber Coats as Blackboards and Cowchips for Heat
Lakeland sod high school is under construction. Summer 1934 RG4290.PH0-001505
Our Sod Schoolhouse Marker Monday and Throwback Thursday posts were so ...
Flashback Friday Encore: Comics, Cartoons, Drawings and Doodles
The Library/Archives holds the collections of various Nebraska artists and cartoonists. One such collection is that of Guy Spencer, cartoonist for the Omaha World-Herald ...
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