Treasures from the Nebraska History Museum: Winter Items
As we enter another month of winter, here are some cold-weather-related items from the Nebraska History Museum collections, legacies of winters past:
Rough on Rats (and biles, and piles, and corns . . . )
Throwback Thursday Photo, McKinley Students' Birdhouses
Spring is here! In today’s Throwback Thursday photograph features a large group of students from McKinley School posed on the steps of Science Hall on the University of Nebraska campus in about 1910. Each student and two teachers hold bird houses they have built. McKinley School operated at 230 S. 15th Street in Lincoln from 1902-1927.
Throwback Thursday Photo, Neligh Race Car
Luella's Lightning Shoe
Luella's Lightning Shoe NSHS 13290-1
Carol Pearson was browsing an estate sale in California when she found an old shoe containing a yellowed newspaper clipping and a handwritten slip of paper. In the article, an elderly Mrs. Luella Brown of Chico, California, recalled the day in 1904 when she was struck by lightning near Lakeland, Brown County, Nebraska. The slip of paper read, “I was born in 1894. This happened 1904.”
Flashback Friday: Barbara and Ralph Fox Photo Exhibit
Today we’re highlighting one of the new exhibits at the newly-renovated Nebraska History Museum.
Barbara and Ralph Fox, 1943. Ralph C. and Barbara Rehberg Fox Collection (NSHS RG4701-2-116)
Our Collections Database Has a New Look!
If you haven’t recently searched our online database for photograph and museum collections, give it a try to see what’s new. The database has a new look and new search features. Our online database continues to grow by leaps and bounds, and more than 17,000 photographs and more than 20,000 objects available for you to search and view.
2014's Top Viewed Records from the NSHS Online Archives
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How is this varnish can tied to the founding of Lincoln?
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The Delzell Family of Peru, Nebraska
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