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. ...
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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 ...
John Gregory Bourke Photographs of Native Americans
Captain John Gregory Bourke, ca. 1893 [RG2955.PH000002]
John Gregory Bourke was born in Philadelphia in 1846. He distinguished himself at the Civil War battle of ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, The Hawk
And now a word from our sponsors. Today’s Throwback Thursday photo takes us to the set of KMTV’s the Hawk. The Hawk, played by Gary Healy, was a masked superhero who ...
Vietnam: The Fight for the Land
Ken Burns’ latest documentary, “The Vietnam War,” premieres in September 2017. But in the early 1960s, Omaha TV station KMTV aired a special on Vietnam called “The Fight ...
Timeline Tuesday: Tractors
One of the most useful farm machines, the tractor, was developed prior to World War I. Probably the first big demonstration of gasoline tractors in the United States was ...
Preserving Puppets
Puppets generally fall along a scale from Muppets (adorable and cuddly) to Ventriloquist Dummy (unsettling and creepy). Thankfully, the twenty-eight puppets donated to ...
Throwback Thursday Photograph, Julius Meyer
Today's Throwback Thursday photographs features images from the Julius Meyer Collection. Meyer was born in Bromberg, Prussia, March 30, 1839. He emigrated to Omaha, ...
Fairmont Foods Company
Fairmont Foods Omaha plant fleet, 1920 (RG4218.PH3-69)
Fairmont Foods began as the Fairmont Creamery in Fairmont, Nebraska, in 1884. The creamery was a pioneer in ...
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