WWI, Omaha, and eBay
By Oliver B. Pollak
The war is 100 years past; all participants are dead. Thousands of stone memorials around the world honor the combatants. New-found ephemera ...
Omaha
What We Found
Marker Monday: Historic Prospect Hill – Omaha’s Pioneer Cemetery
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we focus on Omaha's Prospect Hill Cemetery, which has a ...
Marker Monday: William Henry Jackson, 1843-1942
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we focus on William Henry Jackson, a photographer and explorer ...
Ziegfeld Girls
Ziegfeld's Follies, stage spectaculars mounted by Broadway impresario Florenz "Flo" Ziegfeld from 1907 through 1931, featured prominent composers, elaborate costumes and ...
Whitney Young Jr’s Time in Omaha
Before Whitney Young Jr was a nationally known civil rights leader, he was a local leader in the Omaha chapter of the National Urban League.
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Omaha in 1860
When Henry Palmer of Wisconsin visited Omaha in 1860, he saw a city that was only a shadow of what it would become. Well, mostly what he saw was "prairie covered with ...
Parachuting Accident
On July 3, 1893, thousands of people gathered at Courtland beach to watch 19-year-old Roy Elser make a parachute jump. Instead, they witnessed a tragedy.
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Ice Cream Cones Seized, 1910
In August 1910, the Nebraska State Journal gleefully reported a record-breaking raid by US Marshals in Omaha. The confiscated goods? 185,000 ice cream cones.
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A Nebraska Guidebook
The 1930s were hard times for many Nebraskans, but it was also a time of expanding horizons. Wider availability of cars meant more families could travel the state. To ...
J. Sterling Morton’s 1874 State Fair Appeal
J. Sterling Morton really wanted to spice up the 1874 State Fair. His solution? A massive exhibition of crops.
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A Tale of Domestic Woe and Divorce in 1900
Divorce suits can often be ugly. The Pries divorce in 1900s Omaha, which included child theft and a faked death, was especially dramatic.
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Texas Cattle Trade in Omaha
Soon after the end of the Civil War, Texas cattle began making their way north to Omaha. At first, the herds were 500 strong but by 1875 a herd of 4000 was fairly ...
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