by Chris Goforth | Apr 19, 2023 | Blog
The Digital Curation department has been working hard in 2023 to make several new manuscript and photograph collections available online. Below are a few highlights from the 15 collections we have digitized this year. Stay tuned to the blog and our Digital Collections...
by evolempirecreative | Apr 7, 2023 | Blog
Columbus Brewing Company was the last brewery outside of Omaha when it ceased production in 1954. It produced several local brands of beer, and survived Prohibition by brewing “near beer.” By David L. Bristow, Editor Founded in 1863, Columbus Brewing...
by David Bristow | Apr 5, 2023 | Blog
Five young men, ages 17 to 22, died in Lyons after drinking what they thought was wine. A report in the Omaha Bee-News (Feb. 23, 1930) explained that the jug actually contained “antifreeze solution which had been used two winters in the radiators of two different...
by evolempirecreative | Dec 30, 2022 | Blog
Douglas County sheriffs after a raid on an illegal still around 1922. RG3348-10-11 New Year’s Eve in the 1920s saw Nebraskans unable to legally include alcohol in their celebrations. Voters in this state had already adopted a prohibitory amendment to the...
by evolempirecreative | Oct 29, 2022 | Blog
Jerrald K. Pfabe’s study of two twentieth-century time periods explores Seward County’s most common forms of crime and examples of each. By Breanna Fanta, Editorial Assistant Fifteen-year-old Alby Vajgrt was pregnant, and the family’s farm...
