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 ...
Omaha
What We Found
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. ...
Marker Monday: Ak-Sar-Ben Field and the U.S. Air Mail
Marker Text
Ak-Sar-Ben Field, whose hangars were located on the southeastern corner of these grounds, was used extensively during the early development of U.S. ...
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, ...
New artifact has ties to “The School Children’s Blizzard of 1888”
The Nebraska History Library recently received a donated book from a University Library in Kansas that was inscribed by Minnie Freeman Penney. Minnie is of course ...
Saving Face
Unusual objects have a way of showing up for treatment at the Ford Conservation Center. So in some ways the 69 masks by Nebraska artist Doane Powell were no surprise. ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, KOIL Foley Artist
Crash! Boom! Bang! Today’s Throwback Thursday photograph features a foley artist at work creating sound effects at the Omaha radio station KOIL on August 24, 1937. ...
Inherent Vice
Imagine being responsible for a museum collection and coming across an artifact that appears to be melting before your eyes! That is exactly what happened at the Ford ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Good Old Man
Today’s Throwback Thursday photo features Ta-ou-ka-han or Good Old Man, a member of the Omaha Tribe, singing the Corn Song into a wax cylinder recording device in 1905. ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Gone Fishing
Gone fishing! Three young boys fish the pond at Hanscom Park in Omaha in today’s Throwback Thursday photo. If the string of fish the youngest boy holds, the pint-sized ...
“Free School Advocate” Newspaper
First published by the students of Omaha High School in December of 1859, The Free School Advocate is the earliest known example of school journalism in Nebraska. The ...
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