Timeline Tuesday: Nebraska’s Dog and Pony Show
Welcome to our new weekly series, “Timeline Tuesday.” Every Tuesday, we’ll post a brief Nebraska history story. The late NSHS historian and Nebraska History Associate ...
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What We Found
1890s Business Women Challenged Fashion Standards
The invention of the typewriter changed the way American business and government prepared written materials. Jobs for "typewriters," as operators of the ...
Call for Dodds Houses in May Yields Results
Five previously unidentified early twentieth-century “pattern book” houses by Omaha architect Everett S. Dodds have been located thanks to a search sponsored by ...
1933 Millard Hotel Fire
Today's moment of Nebraska history takes us to a devastating fire that destroyed Omaha's Millard Hotel on the night of February 8, 1933. Seven firemen lost their lives ...
The Curious Candidacy of Americus Liberator
In 1968 Secretary of State Frank Marsh formally recognized the “Peace on Earth Party,” which held its first convention in Omaha.[1] Then Herbert F. Hoover, fourth cousin ...
Preserving Your Family Papers
We receive calls and e-mails all the time asking us for advice on how to preserve family papers. Here are a few tips that will help to ensure your family's history is ...
New Economic Impact Study Cites $79.8 million impact and 1,033 jobs from Nebraska Historic Tax Credit Projects
Burlington Station in Omaha before and after renovation.
Tax credits for historic preservation projects are producing big pay-offs. A new economic impact ...
Native American Heritage Month: Photo Collections
November is Native American Heritage Month and the pictures shown here are just a handful that we have in our collections. Our collections also include information about ...
Flashback Friday: The Role of Women in the Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska
On a spring evening in April 1873, a large crowd gathered in Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, a small frame building near the southeast corner of Eighteenth Street and ...
Real Nebraska Stories: Adventures in Telegraph Line Building
Now that all of our book titles are available at Amazon Prime, we’re highlighting a book a day to let you know about all the great Real Nebraska Stories that we offer. ...
The Omaha Daily Bee Rages Against Comic Valentines
A Valentine's Day portrait of a child sitting in a large heart with an arrow through it, Omaha 1934. RG3882-49-0173-3
Although Valentine's Day and the ...
Timeline Tuesday: Butter Churning
Fairmont Creamery, butter packing, Omaha plant, 1911. RG4218-1-16
Well into the nineteenth century butter was made chiefly by hand using butter churns, ...
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