Carry Nation Tours Omaha
Carry A. Nation, famous as a Kansas "joint smasher" with her trademark hatchet, stopped in Omaha during her short lecture tour through Nebraska in early 1902. Chaperoned ...
Omaha
What We Found
Celebrating Labor Day in 1890, The Butchers’ Picnic
Labor Day in 1890 was celebrated on Monday, September 1, although some events associated with the day were celebrated several days before. One-a butchers' picnic held at ...
Census of 1900
Returns from the census of 1900 caused controversy when the figures were released. The August 23, 1900, issue of the Omaha Daily News (on microfilm at the Nebraska State ...
Census Taker’s Lament
In 1880 Omaha's notorious third ward included the heart of the city's gambling and prostitution. The character of the district created unique problems for federal census ...
“A Certificate of Moral Character”: Rosewater and Rosicky on Immigration
Between 1856 and World War I, over fifty thousand Czechs came to Nebraska, attracted by a steady stream of advertisements in Czech-language newspapers and magazines ...
Christmas Parade, 1893
By the 1880s the arrival of Santa Claus marked the opening of the holiday shopping season in Omaha department stores. The Hayden Brothers store sponsored an annual ...
Christmas Shopping Season
The increasing length of the holiday shopping season has been a trend for many decades. Decorations seem to go up earlier in stores with each passing year. Seasonal ...
Christmas with the Cumings
The Omaha Evening Bee, December 24, 1906, included a short reminiscence of several holiday celebrations in territorial Nebraska."
"Margaret Cuming, widow of Thomas B. ...
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, 1883
The first public performance of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West show was May 19, 1883, in Omaha. A dress rehearsal had taken place May 10 in Columbus. Several ...
Bungalow Filling Stations
After the giant Standard Oil Company was broken into thirty-four separate companies in 1911, the newly independent Standard Oil of Nebraska dominated the state's market ...
The Legacy of Nebraska Exhibit
Nebraska celebrated 150 years of statehood in 2017. “The Legacy of Nebraska: Paintings by Todd A. Williams” was open to the public on Statehood Day. Nebraska-born ...
C. A. Sorensen and the Downfall of Omaha Crime Boss Tom Dennison
A crime boss by the name of Tom Dennison dominated Omaha for the first three decades of the twentieth century—until he crossed paths with Attorney General C. A. ...
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