When Railroads Promoted Immigration (Updated August 2018)
Railroads used to be Nebraska’s biggest promoters. They even advertised overseas to encourage people to immigrate to Nebraska.
By the 1870s the Union Pacific and the ...
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What We Found
Seeing Nebraska by Train in 1877
What did 1877 Nebraska look like to a sophisticated European traveler? Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg of Austria was one of the most famous travel writers of the 19th century. ...
Becoming American
For many immigrants to this country, becoming "American" was a top priority. While somelonged for the ways of the old country, many embraced the new ways America had to ...
Census of 1890
Census statistics for the year 2000 offered an updated view of the population of Nebraska and its economic and social characteristics. Nebraska has been included in all ...
The Petrified Bagel
Affectionately this little gem of an artifact is known around the museum collections offices as “The Petrified Bagel.” It is one of the few food items we have in the ...
“Grandma Gabel, she brought Ralph”: Midwifery and the Lincoln Health Department
By the early 20th century, most Anglo-American women had a physician present at births. However, many rural, minority, or immigrant groups such as the Volga Germans ...
How a coat once buried in a German backyard made it to Nebraska
Today is National Holocaust Remembrance Day. While the Holocaust might seem many decades and thousands of miles from Nebraska, we preserve objects and memories so people ...
Still-Tasty Bagel Makes Perilous Journey
Members of the Heinrich family of Sutton, Nebraska, are said to have brought these bagels with them on their ocean voyage from Germany to the United States in the 1870s. ...
New exhibit opens Friday! “What We Carried: Lincoln”
Fareda Kader brought this photo of her parents when she fled Iraq. It is part of What We Carried: Lincoln, an exhibit that opens Friday, January 26, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., ...
“General” John O’Neill’s advice for new Nebraskans
In 1875, John O'Neill published a pamphlet saying two things. Come to Nebraska and bring money.
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Nebraska City, 1866
Nebraska City in 1866 was a veritable freighting metropolis. Wagons, oxen, mules, and people of all sorts hurried about to get "fitted out" to cross the plains.
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We’re Number One!
Over the years, Nebraska has been "number one" in a lot of categories. We've had the nation's highest-rated football team, we've produced more popcorn than anyone else, ...
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