Timeline Tuesday: Lincoln Penny
The year 2009 is the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth and the 100th anniversary of the introduction of the Lincoln penny. When the Lincoln one-cent coin ...
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Timeline Tuesday: Nebraska’s Bees and Wasps
The Omaha Daily Bee was certainly the largest and most influential Nebraska newspaper to include "Bee" in its name. Its longtime editor, Edward Rosewater (1841-1906), in ...
Timeline Tuesday: Magic among the Indians
What happens when a magician is tricked by his audience? Julius Meyer, pioneer Omaha merchant and Indian trader, is the source for this tale of how Sioux tribesmen in ...
Timeline Tuesday: The Shoemaker’s Ashes
"Edward Kuehl, one of the most peculiar characters that ever lived in Omaha, or anywhere else, was found dead in his bed last night in the back room of his place of ...
Plant Trees, Get Land for Free
March 3: On this date in Nebraska (and U.S.) history the Timber Culture Act became federal law. The 1873 provision allowed homesteaders to acquire 160 acres of land by ...
Timeline Tuesday: An Ice Union of Two Cities
January 12, 1888, marked not only the famous blizzard but a happier event -- what the Omaha Daily Bee on January 13 called "An Ice Union of Two Cities." Despite the ...
Timeline Tuesday: Labor Day Parade, 1894
Omaha's Labor Day parade of 1894 was a "wonderfully successful affair, and was viewed from railings, steps, windows and sidewalks by fully 30,000 people," according to ...
Dr. Picotte’s House
The Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte House, located at 100 Taft Street in Walthill, is a two-story home was built by Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte (c. 1865 – 1916) in 1907 ...
One of Those Days
You think you’ve had ”one of those days”? Consider this from the 1875 Omaha Bee, available on microfilm in the newly re-opened Reference Room at the NSHS headquarters, ...
Nebraska Nursery and Seed Catalogs
With our first taste of spring, many of us are dreaming of warmer days and planning our gardens for the upcoming season. There’s nothing like a stack of colorful seed ...
A Sad Shamrock Saga
Badly Damaged Shamrocks
Mr. John W. Paul related a very good St. Patrick’s day incident which happened in Boston one year ago. A certain Mr. McClanahan, who had been ...
Plenty of Work
Solomon D. Butcher’s photograph depicted workmen laying a concrete sidewalk. NSHS RG2608-2952 (left).
Job hunters in Omaha during the booming 1880s had an easier time ...
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