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What We Found
Air Brakes
Improvements in rail transportation, both of freight and passengers, were of paramount interest and importance in the pre-automobile era. The Daily Nebraska State ...
New Year’s Holiday
The Omaha Daily News, on December 31, 1900, reported on the city's plans to greet a new year. According to the News: "Amid imposing religious services, the ringing of ...
Newspaper Portraits
The faces seen in illustrated newspapers of the late nineteenth century often seem surprisingly similar. Engravings of U.S. congressmen, patent medicine purveyors, ...
The 1905 State Corn Contest
It may have been the Christmas season, but it was corn that was on everyone's mind inLincoln in December of 1905. That year over 500 Nebraska boys and girls descended on ...
North Platte Baseball
Baseball was a popular leisure activity for boys and young men in Nebraska during the 1890s and early 1900s. Small towns often fielded teams, giving rise to strong ...
The Not-So-Gay Nineties
The last decade of the last century is often referred to as "the Gay Nineties." But for farmersin Nebraska, the nineties were not so gay. Ample rainfall had produced ...
Novel Flying Machine
Readers of the Nebraska State Journal on August 16, 1891, must have been intrigued by a perhaps tongue-in-cheek description of "A Novel Flying Machine." Described by ...
Why Opera Houses Were More Popular than Opera
Opera houses provided entertainment and culture in small towns throughout Nebraska between 1880 and 1920.Was opera really that popular?It’s true that opera and classical ...
Paderewski in Lincoln, 1900
In March of 1900 the first issue of a small literary publication, The Pebble, appeared in Omaha. Edited and published by Mary D. Learned and Louise McPherson, it ...
Parking Problems in the 1920s
With the rise of the automobile came the need for parking space, an acute problem in large towns and cities in Nebraska as early as the 1920s. Journalist and press ...
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 ...
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