Timeline Tuesday: Bedbugs
The current resurgence of bedbugs in the United States has brought the little pests once again into the limelight after decades of obscurity. Our pioneer ancestors, ...
Timeline Tuesday
What We Found
Timeline Tuesday: Campaign Buttons of 1896
Although the hobby of collecting political memorabilia is probably as old as politics, the political campaign button first became important in the presidential election ...
Timeline Tuesday: The Bachelors’ Protective Union of Kearney
When the Bachelors' Protective Union gave a gala reception for two of its newly married, former members and their brides in March of 1890, the social club for young, ...
Timeline Tuesday: April Fools in Omaha in 1886
One Omaha barber was the victim of an elaborate April Fool's prank in 1886. John Nelson's photograph depicts a barber shaving a customer with a straight razor during an ...
Timeline Tuesday: Brainerd and Furnas at the Fair
H. A. Brainerd. From Portrait and Biographical Album of Lancaster County, Nebraska (1888).
In 1926 journalist and Nebraska press historian Henry Allen Brainerd ...
Timeline Tuesday:The Davey Ghost
In 1861 a Boston photographer named William H. Mumler discovered that additional images would appear if a glass photographic plate was exposed twice. Some believed that ...
Timeline Tuesday: Easter Cards
The history of modern greeting cards began in 1843 in England with the design of the first Christmas card. Easter cards were introduced somewhat later, but by 1887 ...
Timeline Tuesday: Saint Andre Durand Balcombe
Saint Andre Durand Balcombe. From Omaha Illustrated (1888).
 Saint Andre Durand Balcombe (1829-1904), a pioneer Indian agent and newspaper editor of ...
Timeline Tuesday: Bootleggers’ Carnival
The passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed the manufacture and sale of liquor nationwide, but statewide prohibition was already in effect ...
Timeline Tuesday: Drought and Depression in 1890s Nebraska
Nebraska in the early 1890s suffered from protracted drought, and farm prices fell to new lows. Conditions were so unfavorable that immigration, which had more than ...
Timeline Tuesday: Harrison Johnson’s History of Nebraska
"Our work is done," wrote Harrison Johnson (1822-1885) as he concluded his History of Nebraska, published in 1880. "The volume is completed, and only awaits the ...
Timeline Tuesday: Human Nature at the Marriage License Bureau
"No other department in the court house offers such an excellent field for the study of human nature as the marriage license bureau," wrote an observant Omaha Daily Bee ...
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