New Year’s Calling Cards
An important part of the bygone custom of paying New Year's calls was the presentation of an appropriate calling or visiting card by the caller to the hostess. Inscribed ...
Lincoln Daily Call
What We Found
When Parks Were a New Idea
Amy Nesbit at Cushman Park, four miles west of Lincoln, 1895. RG716-21-8
Should cities and states set aside some land for public recreation? Today that seems like an ...
Public Holidays
Arbor Day originated in Nebraska in 1872, when the State Board of Agriculture adopted J. Sterling Morton's resolution that April 10 of that year be set aside for tree ...
St. Patrick’s Day, 1891
"As the years pass on and the Irish emigrant gets farther away from his native isle each succeeding seventeenth of March grows dearer to his heart," said the Lincoln ...
Wind Wagon of the 1890s
Using the wind as a source of power, including locomotive power, is hardly new. "Wind wagon" stories intermittently appear in the history of the Great Plains, especially ...
Women in Trousers
The invention of the typewriter changed the way American business and government prepared written materials. Jobs for "typewriters," as operators of the new machine were ...
Irish in Lincoln, 1890
"There was an enthusiastic and well attended meeting of the Lincoln branch of the Irish National league yesterday afternoon at Fitzgerald hall, Charles McGlave ...
Labor Day Parade
Lincoln's Labor Day parade of 1890 was a joint effort by members of Lancaster County labor organizations and the Farmers Alliance, with some state, county, and city ...
Balloon Ascension
After the Civil War hot air balloon "barnstormers" traveled around the country, demonstrating their aerial prowess at local fairs and celebrations. Some even jumped from ...
Little Egypt in Omaha
Little Egypt was the stage name for several popular exotic dancers, who had many imitators. The first Little Egypt appeared at the "Street in Cairo" exhibition at the ...
Dowsing for Water
Locating a suitable well site was of paramount importance on the Nebraska frontier. Everett Dick noted in Conquering the Great American Desert, published in 1975 by the ...
Football is Dangerous, According to Lincoln Call
"It may be a little early to prophesy with confidence the decline of foot ball as it is now played," commented the Sunday Morning Call (Lincoln) on December 3, 1893, ...
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