NSHS 2016 Awards Luncheon Results
Guests gather for the NSHS 2016 Annual Awards Luncheon.
Nebraska “history makers” gathered for the Nebraska State Historical Society awards luncheon ...
Lincoln
What We Found
Nebraska’s 1908 World Series Connection
William Jennings Bryan campaigns in Lincoln on August 12, 1908. RG3198-41-10
Whether you’re happy the Cubs won the 2016 World Series or disgruntled your ...
Reader Rescue: Can you help us tell the story of our new “Donna Dolls”?
The NSHS recently received a donation of four "Donna Dolls," which were manufactured in Lincoln by a woman named Marguerite Polk Tapley. We know very little about them, ...
Lincoln’s 1963 Sky Park Manor had “thrilling tingle of excitement” and fallout shelter
By Kylie Kinley
This article first appeared in the January-February-March 2017 issue of Nebraska History News. Illustrations are from Sky Park's promotional ...
Nebraska Unwrapped: What would you include?
Calling all would-be curators! What should the Nebraska State Historical Society be collecting? When the Nebraska History Museum in Lincoln re-opens on April 1st, it ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, McKinley Students’ Birdhouses
Spring is here! In today’s Throwback Thursday photograph features a large group of students from McKinley School posed on the steps of Science Hall on the University of ...
Sheldon’s World War II Posters
Addison E. Sheldon, pictured here supervising the work of Society employees, was superintendent of History Nebraska (then known as the Nebraska State Historical Society) ...
Nebraska’s Skies Inspire Batik Map
This batik map of Nebraska was created by Lincoln artist Lilian Ibser while employed by the federal government on the Public Works of Art Program (PWAP). The PWAP was a ...
Nebraska First Ladies Inaugural Ball Gowns
The wife of Nebraska's governor ("The First Lady") traditionally wears a special gown to the governor's inaugural ball, as represented by these five examples from the ...
Unicameral Gavel
Gavel used at first Nebraska Unicameral
In the early 1930s, Nebraska U.S. Senator George Norris promoted the concept of the non-partisan, one-house legislature ...
Abraham Lincoln life mask
Abraham Lincoln life mask (7701-17)
This bronze sculpture is from the life mask of Abraham Lincoln that was taken by artist Leonard Volk in 1860. In 1886, a ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Pioneer Park Golf Course
Fore! Today’s Throwback Thursday photo takes us to the opening day of the Pioneer Park Golf Course in Lincoln, Nebraska. Teeing off in the photo are (left to right) Ted ...
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