Charles “Mutt” Davison receives the Silver Star
Charles “Mutt” Davison, a Lincoln resident and former University of Nebraska baseball and basketball player, was awarded the Silver Star on May 21, 1945 for heroic ...
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What We Found
Love Sugar? I’ve Got Just the Hospital for You
With that title I bet you thought this blog was going to be about the evils of sugar consumption. Nope, we’ll leave that to the countless “health” blogs. I’ve got ...
Lincoln’s Lindell Hotel
One of the most important buildings in an early Nebraska town was the hotel. It helped attract new settlers and housed not only travelers but residents who lived at ...
J. C. Penney’s Middle Name Really Was “Cash”
James Cash Penney wasn’t a Nebraskan, and he started his famous retail franchise in Wyoming, but he opened stores in more than fifty Nebraska towns. No merchant before ...
Pershing for President in 1920
A World War I poster featuring Gen. John J. Pershing. NSHS 13000-3565 (at left).
World War I did not produce a military hero who became President, but it did launch ...
Roller Skating Once a Popular Adult Pastime
From Bicycle Journal (September 1968). NSHS 9778-5 (at right).
A wave of popular enthusiasm followed the invention of the modern roller skate in 1863 by James L. ...
A Little Piece of Music History
The Library/Archives recently acquired a scrapbook relating to Donald Abbott of Beatrice and then Lincoln, Nebraska. Abbott was born in Illinois in 1912 and later moved ...
International Religious Leader Visits Nebraska
The Bahá’í Faith was founded by Bahá’u'lláh in 19th-century Persia. `Abdu’l-Bahá Abbas (1844-1921), eldest son of Bahá’í founder Bahá’u'lláh, became the ...
Hedwig Rosenberg’s Persian Lamb Coat
11588-263 (photograph at left).
The Nebraska History museum has a collection of clothing that spans almost 150 years. Some of these items have important stories to ...
Happy Days
There is just something about old drive-ins that brings out the nostalgia in people. In Lincoln, Ken Eddy’s was a legend. In 1952, Ken Lydic and Eddy Gold opened ...
John L. Teeters
John Lewis Teeters was born at Iowa City, Iowa, the son of Albert and Ellen Baker Wood Teeters. In 1886 he graduated from the University of Iowa with a bachelors degree. ...
A Question of Business: Will Machines Replace Stenographers?
In 1877 Thomas A. Edison invented a machine that could record and reproduce the human voice using a tinfoil-covered cylinder. Edison’s phonograph, his trade name for his ...
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