What’s more ghoulish than a historic mask of a long-dead celebrity?
What’s more ghoulish than a historic mask of a long-dead celebrity? Any mask of a long-dead celebrity with wrinkles, tears, missing ears, or discoloration – or at least ...
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What We Found
Timeline Tuesday: Campaign Buttons of 1896
Although the hobby of collecting political memorabilia is probably as old as politics, the political campaign button first became important in the presidential election ...
Flashback Friday: A Day in the Life of Downtown Omaha
Downtown Omaha, 1920s. Looking west on Douglas Street from the intersection of Sixteenth Street. The Brandeis Building, which still stands, is on the left. NSHS ...
Flashback Friday: The Great Omaha Train Robbery of 1909
This isn't the train that was robbed, but is one from that era: a Burlington train in Wilber, Nebraska, in 1910. NSHS RG0813-44
On a night train heading ...
Flashback Friday: Hiram P. Bennet and Nebraska’s First Territorial Legislature
Thomas B. Cuming, secretary of Nebraska Territory from 1854 to 1858. James W. Savage and John T. Bell, History of the City of Omaha, Nebraska (New York, ...
Flashback Friday: A 1930s Medical Romance
Medical student Joe Holoubek was dismayed the first time he saw a “hen medic” in a class at Mayo Clinic in 1937. But he got over his prejudice against women doctors and ...
Timeline Tuesday: April Fools in Omaha in 1886
One Omaha barber was the victim of an elaborate April Fool's prank in 1886. John Nelson's photograph depicts a barber shaving a customer with a straight razor during an ...
Timeline Tuesday: Easter Cards
The history of modern greeting cards began in 1843 in England with the design of the first Christmas card. Easter cards were introduced somewhat later, but by 1887 ...
The Army’s Achilles’ Heel in the Civil War Plains Campaigns of 1864-65
On August 18, 1864, after hastily re-mustering at Omaha from their veteran furloughs, the men of the First Nebraska Volunteer Cavalry left for Fort Kearny. Instead of ...
Timeline Tuesday: Saint Andre Durand Balcombe
Saint Andre Durand Balcombe. From Omaha Illustrated (1888).
Saint Andre Durand Balcombe (1829-1904), a pioneer Indian agent and newspaper editor of ...
Timeline Tuesday: Human Nature at the Marriage License Bureau
"No other department in the court house offers such an excellent field for the study of human nature as the marriage license bureau," wrote an observant Omaha Daily Bee ...
Timeline Tuesday: Gaining and Losing: James C. Dahlman and William Howard Taft
Mayor James "Cowboy Jim" Dahlman of Omaha. From Omaha Police Department Official Historical Souvenir (1909).
James C. Dahlman, the colorful "perpetual ...
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