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Tag Archives: Lincoln
The Risks of the Doll Business
Part two of the story of the Lincoln, Nebraska-based Terri Lee Company, an innovative doll manufacturer in the 1940s and ’50s. Part one is here. The full story (of which this is a summary) is told in a richly-illustrated article … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, Nebraska History, Publications
Tagged collectible, dolls, exhibit, fire, Lincoln, Terri Lee
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The Unicameral’s Unwritten Rules
Policy-making has always been a delicate business with a lot of formal rules that must be followed. But as Nebraska State Senator Bill Avery explains in the Spring 2013 issue of Nebraska History, there is an equally important set of … Continue reading
Posted in Nebraska History, Publications
Tagged folkways, law, Legislature, Lincoln, Nebraska, politics, rules, traditions, Unicameral, unspoken
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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!) … Continue reading
Nebraska Cigars Once a Smoker’s Delight
The photograph above, from the collections of the Nebraska State Historical Society, depicts employees of a Lincoln establishment, identified by a sign over the awning as the Ross & Bryson Cigar Factory, about 1910. Others have gathered to pose, including a … Continue reading
Posted in Nebraska Timeline, Photograph Collection, Publications
Tagged cigars, Lincoln, Ross & Bryson Cigar Factory
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A Funny-Looking Airplane
Above is an LS Cruiser, built by Lincoln Standard Aircraft Company of Lincoln, Nebraska, and shown here sometime between 1920 and 1922. The photo is from the NSHS collections and appears in Wings Over Nebraska: Historic Aviation Photographs, published by … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph Collection, Publications
Tagged 1920s, aviation, Lincoln, transportation, World War I
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Students and the Saloon
Although dating from the 1870s, the city of Lincoln’s preoccupation with the prohibition issue quickened in the first decade of the twentieth century. With the failure of efforts to add a prohibitory amendment to the state constitution in 1890, prohibitionists … Continue reading
Posted in Nebraska Timeline, Publications
Tagged Lincoln, Prohibition, Samuel Avery, University of Nebraska
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The Dangers of Jazz Dancing
Do you feel like the world is speeding up around you? Like society has gotten so crazy you can’t keep up? You’re not the first! An article in the Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star on August 12, 1934, talks about … Continue reading
The Best-Dressed Doll in the World
A new exhibit opens this evening at the Nebraska History Museum! The Best-Dressed Doll in the World: Nebraska’s Own Terri Lee runs through September 1, 2013, and is also the subject of a richly-illustrated article in the Winter 2012 issue … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, Museum Collections, Nebraska History, Publications
Tagged African Americans, business history, children, collections, dolls, Lincoln, Terri Lee
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More from the Corner Drugstore
We’re always pleased when readers can provide more information about the photos we post. In response to a recent post, “The Corner Drugstore, 1934,” we received this comment: Dr. Geo. Strassler says: October 24, 2012 at 10:04 am SW corner … Continue reading
The Corner Drugstore, 1934
One of the joys of the extensive NSHS photo collection is the inevitability of stumbling upon interesting photos that have nothing to do with what you’re actually looking for. (This is one reason we have a blog.) Here’s a scene … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph Collection
Tagged children, downtown, Great Depression, Lincoln, retail
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