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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Hedwig Rosenberg’s Persian Lamb Coat
The Nebraska History museum has a collection of clothing that spans almost 150 years. Some of these items have important stories to tell. Here is one of those stories. In the early years of the 1930s, life for Hedwig and … Continue reading
Posted in Museum Collections Tagged coat, Holocaust, immigrants, Jewish, Nazi, World War II 3 Comments
Home Movie Day reminder…
There is still time to submit your home movies for possible inclusion in “Home Movie Day” this fall. Do you have home movies showing choice community events? Family fun? Scenes of travels near and far? The Nebraska State Historical Society … Continue reading
The Nebraska Statesman: The People Behind the Picture
An iconic Solomon Butcher photograph portrays a frontier newspaper office in Broken Bow. But the story of the two men who founded the short-lived paper has not been told until now. Patricia C. Gaster writes about it in the Fall … Continue reading
Posted in Nebraska History, Photograph Collection, Publications Tagged Custer County, newspapers, Solomon Butcher Leave a comment
New Reference Room Hours Starting Sept. 6th
In response to popular demand, the Library/Archives Reference Room will no longer close over the noon hour, but opening will be one hour later. The new hours will be: Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 – 4:00 Saturday, 8:00 – 5:00 (Saturday hours remain … Continue reading
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Souvenir Spoons
Collecting souvenir spoons became a popular hobby for Americans in the late 1800s. Wealthy tourists visiting Europe brought home these mementos marked with the names of foreign cities and famous landmarks they had seen. The Omaha Daily Bee on May … Continue reading
Share Your Home Movies with the Nebraska State Historical Society
Do you have home movies showing choice community events? Family fun? Scenes of travels near and far? The Nebraska State Historical Society (NSHS) invites you to loan your home movie gems for possible inclusion in “Home Movie Day,” to be … Continue reading
Dan Desdunes and the Birth of Omaha Jazz
Dan Desdunes lived a remarkable life as a bandleader, educator, and civil rights activist. In his native New Orleans, he played a key role in an unsuccessful legal challenge to railway segregation that led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous … Continue reading
Posted in Nebraska History, Publications Tagged African Americans, Boys Town, music, Omaha Leave a comment
Pests on the Plains: The Potato Bug
With the sole exception of grasshoppers, perhaps the most hated insects to afflict the pioneer farmer were potato bugs. So prevalent were they at one time in Nebraska that one of the state’s early nicknames, the “Bug Eaters,” was said … Continue reading
International Religious Leader Visits Nebraska
The Bahá’í Faith was founded by Bahá’u’lláh in 19th-century Persia. `Abdu’l-Bahá Abbas (1844-1921), eldest son of Bahá’í founder Bahá’u’lláh, became the sole interpreter of his father’s teaching after Bahá’u’lláh’s death. `Abdu’l-Bahá toured the United States in 1912 to promote unity … Continue reading
Posted in Library/Archives, Manuscript Collections Tagged 'Abdu'l-Bahá Abbas, Bahá'í Faith, Fairview, Lincoln, religion, William Jennings Bryan 2 Comments
Newly Discovered Diary Tells of Building the Transcontinental Telegraph
The transcontinental telegraph was a remarkable technological feat that had major consequences for the West and the nation as a whole. Yet relatively little has been written about it. Historians Dennis N. Mihelich and James E. Potter have edited First … Continue reading