Spitting Prohibited!
During the late nineteenth century spittoons became a common feature of saloons, hotels, stores, banks, railway carriages, and other places where adult men gathered. ...
Norfolk Weekly News-Journal
What We Found
Those Fish Stories
Improbable fishing yarns have been around as long as fish and fishing. The Norfolk Weekly News-Journal in the summer of 1907 reported an escalating series of such tales ...
Cornhuskers in Demand
Cornhusking was once an annual autumn activity on many Nebraska farms. Before the advent of the mechanical corn picker, the corn crop was harvested by hand and "shucked" ...
Beating the Heat in 1906
John Nelson’s photograph of two couples seated in front of their tents was taken sometime between 1907 and 1917.
NSHS RG3542-98-4
In the days before air conditioning, ...
Sweet Treats at Easter
This Easter postcard is from Nebraska State Historical Society collections. NSHS 9857566 (above).
What is Easter without eggs, if not the genuine article, then at ...
Celebrating Robert Burns and Nebraska’s Scottish Heritage
Engraving from 1787 portrait of Robert Burns by Alexander Nasmyth.
The anniversary of the birth of Scottish poet Robert Burns on January 25, 1759, was once widely ...
Cornhuskers in Demand
Cornhusking was once an annual autumn activity on many Nebraska farms. Before the advent of the mechanical corn picker, the corn crop was harvested by hand and "shucked" ...
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