Automobiles for Women, the Overland Coupe
At the beginning of the 1910s, women drivers in the United States were still only a small minority--perhaps no more than five percent of the total number of drivers. But ...
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W.C.T.U.’s Crusade Against Drugs
Drug abuse problems in Nebraska and the rest of the country during the late nineteenth century involved different substances than those commonly mentioned in the crime ...
Hollingworth, Leta
Leta Stetter Hollingworth, born and educated in Nebraska, was a well-known New York psychologist during the early years of the twentieth century. She is best remembered ...
Cigar Manufacturing in Grand Island
Cigarmaking, although never a leading Nebraska industry, was present in the state from early days. By 1869 there were 28 cigar makers in the state; by 1900 there were ...
Harriet S. Brooks, Woman Suffragist
Harriet S. Brooks (1828-1888) was the most senior of Nebraska's woman's rights activists in the years leading up to 1882. She promoted suffrage in the pages of the Omaha ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, WAC Gladys Welch
In today’s Throwback Thursday photograph, WAC Gladys Welch sits smiling on an Army motorcycle at Fort Robinson. In 1943, a detachment of Woman’s Army Corp (WAC) was ...
Women of the Great War: WWI Posters
By David L. Bristow, Editor
World War I was fought not only with weapons but also with pictures and words. After the United States declared war on Germany in April ...
Pan of Fudge
Six girls and their bemused-looking chaperone pose in a pennant-bedecked room, possibly at York College (York, Nebraska) in about 1910.
Many food historians trace the ...
Ada C. Bittenbender and the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association
Ada Cole Bittenbender, a leader in the woman suffrage and temperance movements, was also one of Nebraska's first woman lawyers and only the third woman admitted to ...
Throwback Thursday: Blue Springs High School Girls Basketball Team
Today's Throwback Thursday features a set of images depicting the 1924 Blue Springs High School girls basketball team.The six young women (and occasionally their coach) ...
Women’s History Month Resources
March is Women's History Month, so all month long we are celebrating the contributions of women to Nebraska history. Below you can find long-form Nebraska ...
Kearney Woman’s Club
The Kearney Woman’s Club has seen many changes over the decades, but their commitment to the community has not ceased.
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