Flashback Friday Encore: Happy Birthday to the Arcadia Township Library
October 2nd marks 99 years since the opening of the Arcadia Township Library in Valley County. The library was designed by the Lincoln firm of Fiske and Meginnis. It was ...
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What We Found
Flashback Friday: New Photos of 1890s Irrigation and Pioneer Life in the North Platte Valley Reveal New Insights
The right portion of this house shows a remnant of an earlier, lower gable, indicating that the house was originally built with a low roof (like the house in the left ...
Flashback Friday: Dog Soup Party
Dog Soup Party, Pine Ridge Sioux. RG0802.120-82
By Kylie Kinley, Assistant Editor
If you search our photo collection for the word “party,” you expect ...
Flashback Friday: Niobrara, the Town Too Tough to Stay Put
Ice gorge, Missouri River Flood, Niobrara. Date unknown. RG2118-5-16
Last week's Wild Weather Wednesday was so popular we decided to give you more of the ...
Flashback Friday: The Knighthood of Youth Club Taught Nebraska Children to Avoid the “Grouchy Swamp”
Prior to the Boy Scouts, there were several youth organizations based on King Arthur and the Arthurian legend. One such organization was the Knighthood of Youth. ...
Flashback Friday: Frontier Acres Museum and a Historian 4-Her
Hannah Spiehs with her award-winning 4-H Heritage Project.
Arthur B is an award-winning historian, animated storyteller, and a dedicated researcher of ...
Flashback Friday: Preacher’s Sermon Book and Diary Includes Webster, Dawes Counties
The NSHS Archives collections contain a preacher’s sermon book and diary dating from 1907-1947. The Rev. John B. Williams held numerous pastorates during this time ...
Flashback Friday: The Role of Women in the Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska
On a spring evening in April 1873, a large crowd gathered in Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, a small frame building near the southeast corner of Eighteenth Street and ...
Flashback Friday: Q&A with Joe Starita, author of A Warrior of the People, biography of Susan La Flesche, America’s First Indian Doctor
UNL professor and author Joseph Starita’s new biography, A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become ...
Flashback Friday: ‘Cream-of-the-crop of Nebraska girls’ – Miss Centennial Nebraska 1967
Miss Centennial Nebraska 1967 in a Centennial Parade in O'Neill.
By Kylie Kinley, Assistant Editor
It won her a crown so heavy it dented her forehead, a ...
Flashback Friday: Rifle of Cowboy and Gunslinger Mike Shonsey Donated to Nebraska History Museum
Mike Shonsey holding the rifle that was later donated to the Nebraska History Museum. RG4232-5-11
The last surviving participant in Wyoming’s 1892 Johnson ...
Flashback Friday: The Fight Over Nebraska’s State Seal and Flag
By James E. Potter
Florence Hazen Miller of Crete, right, with the Nebraska state flag for which she was the leading advocate. The woman on the left is ...
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