Lazy Days of Summer
Are you enjoying your summer as much as the boys in this photograph?
Which is the earliest known picture of a Nebraska event?
Make your guess, then scroll down for the answer.
Flashback Friday: New Photos of 1890s Irrigation and Pioneer Life in the North Platte Valley Reveal New Insights
The right portion of this house shows a remnant of an earlier, lower gable, indicating that the house was originally built with a low roof (like the house in the left background in the previous photo). With its additions, awning, and partial new roof, the tidy sod house is the picture of prosperity.
Throwback Thursday: New Photographs Reveal Details about 19th Century Lincoln
The smoking ruins of Leighton and Brown's Drug Store, Lincoln, NE, circa 1880.
Flashback Friday: Our People, Our Land, Our Images Indigenous Photography Exhibition Now Open
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)
Through the Lens of Wallace Rhodes
Nebraska Photographers in Convention
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Nebraska’s Unlikely Landscapes
A rocky outcrop is covered with small round cacti. Wide dusty badlands look like a backdrop for a Wild West movie. High rocky bluffs make the landscape below look miniature. It may come as a surprise to many (even Nebraskans!) that these pictures were taken in Nebraska: just a few examples of Frank Shoemaker’s stunning photographs featured in the Spring 2013 issue of Nebraska History.
Spirit Photography
Unidentified woman and her attendant spirit c.1890.(RG3507.PH11-7)
With the discovery of photography, along with using the technique of double exposing a negative, many interesting images have appeared through the years.
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