Airmail
An early use of the airplane in Nebraska was mail delivery. The Omaha Daily News, January 8, 1920, microfilmed copies of which are at the Nebraska State Historical ...
Union Pacific
What We Found
Buffalo at Sidney, 1872
Thousands of buffalo still roamed the plains of Nebraska as late as 1875. As the prairies filled with homesteaders, the buffalo inevitably came into conflict with them, ...
A Window into Abraham Lincoln’s Funeral Car
Source: Mrs. Ethel Carleton
If you had to guess the history of this object, what would you think? Perhaps an old, well-used picture frame? Actually its original ...
The Sioux City & Pacific Railroad Company
The Library/Archives recently acquired this stock certificate for the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad Company.
Sioux City and Pacific Railroad Company ...
Check Your Bags? Scenes from the Ogallala Depot
Among the thousands of railroad photos in our collections is a series shot outside the Union Pacific Depot in Ogallala around 1900. The photos were apparently meant to ...
When Railroads Promoted Immigration
You might think that settlers or the state government were Nebraska's biggest boosters in the 1870s, but you'd be wrong. They weren't the ones running an international ...
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