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 ...
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What We Found
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 ...
Katherine Enevold Grunwald quilts
Tulip Applique QuiltNSHS 13046-1
Lavender Flowers in a PotNSHS 13046-3
Trip Around the World quiltNSHS 13046-2
Kathrine Enevold Grunwald ...
Honoring History Makers at the NSHS Annual Meeting
Join us in Omaha on Thursday, October 12, 5:30 to 8:00 p.m., to recognize individuals who’ve made history by helping to preserve it.
This year’s NSHS 2017 Annual ...
Flashback Friday: A Gentleman’s Game: Nineteenth-Century Soccer in Omaha
What Americans call “soccer” is one of several sports that evolved from games played for centuries in Europe, loosely called “football.” The history of the sport in ...
Timeline Tuesday: Union Pacific Railroad
In October of 1934 the Union Pacific Railroad's new Pullman-equipped, six-car speed train attempted a new coast-to-coast record. Dashing from Los Angeles to New York in ...
Discover the History Nebraska Manuscript Collections
Lincoln Sport Plane, blueprint drawing [RG3726.AM: Encil Chambers]
For this October’s celebration of Archives Month, we would like to tell you a little more about ...
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