Timeline Tuesday: Smoking Banned on UNL Campus in 1907
Unidentified cowboy (vaquero) lighting a cigarette. Date unknown. RG4887.PH000006-000006
Tobacco has long been attacked by reformers and medical ...
Timeline Tuesday
What We Found
Timeline Tuesday: An 1880s Hair Hoax
Five young women style hair in a tent in this photo taken near Monroe, Nebraska around 1905. RG5762-16
It was the style during the 1880s and 1890s for ...
Timeline Tuesday: Christmas at Fort Robinson, 1882
Fort Robinson Christmas party. RG1517-85-1
Fort Robinson provides the following holiday story of devotion and courage. It can be found in A Frontier Army ...
Timeline Tuesday: Cherry Picking at the Watson Ranch
Solomon D. Butcher depicted a crowd picking cherries on the Watson Ranch in 1908. NSHS RG2608-2289
In 1888, H. D. Watson established the historic Watson ...
Timeline Tuesday: Fuel and Water — The Housewife’s Needs
Four women stand in a kitchen setting, date and place unknown. RG2343.18
By the late 1800s, new household conveniences were available to lighten some of a ...
Timeline Tuesday: Coal Thieves
Workers at Honey Creek Coal Mine, Peru, Nebr. RG2304-8-58
The advent of winter at one time prompted many Nebraska householders to lay in a supply of coal. ...
Timeline Tuesday: Willa Cather and Beauty and the Beast
Cast of 'Beauty and the Beast' including Willa Cather in a top hat. The play was a comedic musical version written by J Barmby. RG1951-1119
The Red Cloud ...
Timeline Tuesday: Butter Churning
Fairmont Creamery, butter packing, Omaha plant, 1911. RG4218-1-16
Well into the nineteenth century butter was made chiefly by hand using butter churns, ...
Timeline Tuesday: Darryl F. Zanuck
Darryl F. Zanuck (1902-1979), a native Nebraskan, produced some of Hollywood's most important and controversial films. He helped found 20th Century Fox and remained a ...
Timeline Tuesday: Baseball in Early Lincoln
Edward Manley, a Chicago educator, was the son of Samuel Manley, one of the five men that composed the faculty of the University of Nebraska when classes first began in ...
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 ...
Timeline Tuesday: Artificial Stone
The real beginnings of the modern concrete block industry did not begin until the advent of Harmon S. Palmer's cast-iron machine for making such blocks, patented in ...
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