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 ...
Omaha
What We Found
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 ...
Harriet S. Brooks, Woman Suffragist
By the time Harriet S. Brooks became a senior founding member of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association, she had been promoting women's right to vote for decades in ...
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 ...
Klowns of the Koo Koo Krust
It is well known that the first Nebraska Klavern of the Ku Klux Klan was formed in Omaha in 1921. It is also known that the Klan was claiming as many as 45,000 members ...
Beer and Blood: The Butchers’ Picnic
The South Omaha butchers conceived the idea that it would be fun to stay away and play a practical joke on their Council Bluffs brethren, . . . They sent a defiant ...
A 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 ...
Free Auto Camps
John Nelson’s photograph depicted a homemade auto camper (left). NSHS RG3542-124-01
Long distance travel in the early days of the automobile was difficult, and ...
“The Ugliest Artifact I’ve Ever Seen”
Museum artifacts can be beautiful. Museum artifacts can be plain. Plain museum artifacts can sometimes represent ugly ideas. It is rare, however, to come across a museum ...
A Real Romance
Valentine’s Day has long been the day to celebrate romantic love—but, as the Omaha Daily Bee pointed out on April 29, 1882, there’s “Nothing Like a Little Common Sense ...
Omaha’s Shocking Nineteenth-Century Art
In 1890 a young man named Carey Judson Warbington picked up a chair and began smashing a painting that hung in an Omaha gallery. The painting was Return of Spring by ...
A Window into Abraham Lincoln’s Funeral Car
Source: Mrs. Ethel Carleton
If you had to guess the history of this object, what would you think? Perhaps an old, well-used picture frame? Actually its original ...
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