Rain in Nebraska!
"RAIN IN NEBRASKA," the headline read. "LONG DRY SPELL IS BROKEN BY HEAVYSHOWERS." In the hopes that history may repeat itself, here's more of the drought-breaking ...
Norfolk
What We Found
Roller Skating Once a Popular Adult Pastime
A wave of popular enthusiasm followed the invention of the modern roller skate in 1863 by James L. Plimpton of Massachusetts. Within twenty years roller skating had ...
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. ...
Square Turn Tractor and Power Farming
"Power farming" with tractors furnishing the motion which for ages had been supplied to machines by the ox, the horse, or by other animals, began to make its presence ...
Nan J. Aspinwall, Western Entertainer
"Nan Jane Aspinwall has successfully completed a ride on horseback from San Francisco to New York," said the Commoner (Lincoln), on July 28, 1911, in a brief paragraph ...
“Diamond Dick” Tanner
The life of Richard J. "Diamond Dick" Tanner (1869-1943) encompassed a noteworthy long-distance horseback ride, circus stardom as a crack shot, a medical career in ...
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, ...
Spitting Prohibited!
Spittoons are visible on the floor in this circa-1910 photo by John Nelson of Ericson. RG3542-95-20
By Patricia C. Gaster
This article was first ...
For Whom The Bell Tolls
In the early 1900s, this bell was used on a homestead in Otoe County to call farmhands to meals. In the 1920s, it was used by WJAG radio announcer, and future Nebraska ...
Nan J. Aspinwall, Western Entertainer
When Nan Aspinwall arrived in New York on July 8, 1911, after a ride on horseback from San Francisco to New York, it was perhaps the highlight of a long and colorful ...
Frank James a Thanksgiving Star at Norfolk
Frank James. NSHS RG2316-44
Thanksgiving Day in Norfolk in 1904 was marked not only by religious services and family dinners, but by the “amusement feature of the day,” ...
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 ...
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