Conservation Tools: Humidification and Suction Table
Conservators use a lot of different tools and equipment when treating objects and artwork in the lab. This blog post from us at the Ford Conservation Center will be ...
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Conservation Tools – Heat and Suction Table
Conservators use a lot of different tools and equipment when treating objects and artwork in the lab. This quarter’s blog posts from the Ford Center will be about ...
Conservation Tools – Fume Extraction
Conservators use a lot of different tools and equipment when treating objects and artwork in the lab. This quarter’s blog posts from the Ford Center have been about ...
Patzel’s “Poo-ey” Piques Pigs’ Passion
When his last dynamic “Poo-ey” died away at the Omaha Auditorium on the night of September 11, 1926, Fred Patzel had won the title of World’s Champion Hog Caller.
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Marker Monday Capitol Hill
Marker Text
This site on Capitol Hill was for a decade the location of Nebraska’s second territorial capitol. The building was erected here in 1857 and 1858 and ...
When the Territorial Capitol basement was a human litter box, 1859
In 1859 members of the legislature used the capitol basement's dirt floor as a latrine.
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How filing cabinets changed the world
This is a story of a piece of office infrastructure that quietly helped create the modern world. Nebraska newspapers first carried ads for filing cabinets in the ...
Senator Joseph McCarthy attacks President Truman on Omaha radio, 1951
By David L. Bristow, Editor
“You are not fooling anyone by screaming that McCarthy is lying,” said Sen. Joseph McCarthy into a KFAB microphone ...
1976: Omaha’s Court-Ordered Integration (Part One)
The Omaha Public School District was forced to face its racial imbalance and produced an integration plan that would reassign students to new schools and bus routes.
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1976: Omaha’s Court-Ordered Integration (Part Two)
In an earlier post we looked at how a 1975 court order addressed Omaha Public Schools’ racial imbalance by requiring the reassignment of students to new schools and bus ...
Nebraska’s First Jewish Newspaper
By Breanna Fanta, Editorial Assistant (2021)
“Newspapers are said to be the first draft of history.”
A short-lived twentieth-century newspaper now provides ...
Turkey from a Hog: Omaha’s First Christmases
To mark the approach of Christmas in 1889 the Omaha Bee published brief recollections by some of the city’s earliest settlers about their first observances of the ...
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