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Tag Archives: Throwback Thursday
Throwback Thursday: Pupils at District 36 Examine Books at the Bookmobile
Traveling for NLA this #ThrowbackThursday?
This week’s highlight shows off a bookmobile! Seven children are looking at books in front of a dark-colored panel truck in this 2-1/2″ x 4-1/8″ black and white photograph. The truck is parked in a grassy field in front of a white wooden schoolhouse, and the two panel doors on its side are open, revealing books on shelves.
This image is published and owned by the Nebraska Library Commission. The collections include material on the history of libraries in the state of Nebraska, items from the 1930s related to the Nebraska Public Library Commission bookmobile, as well as items showcasing the history of Nebraska’s state institutions.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
The Nebraska Memories archive is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. If your institution is interested in participating in Nebraska Memories, see http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nebraskamemories/participation.aspx for more information.
Throwback Thursday: Classroom, Immanuel Deaconess Institute
Don’t let the skeleton spook you, it’s just #ThrowbackThursday!
This week’s highlight is a 9 1/2″ x 7 1/2″black and white photographic print. Identified by a note on the back, it shows a classroom for student nurses in the 3rd hospital of the Immanuel Deaconess Institute. A blackboard appears across the front wall, with the left portion being covered by a roll down chart illustrating the front and back views of a human figure’s musculature. An instructor’s desk and chair on a low riser appear in the front center of the room, and on the right is a human skeleton is suspended from a freestanding armature.
This image is published and owned by the Alegent Health Immanuel Medical Center, located in Bellevue, Nebraska. They have a mission to preserve, collect, display, and document objects and records related to the history of Sarpy County. Its rich and well documented history is shown in the images of early buildings, people and artifacts. An archive of thousands of photos, papers and items has been maintained over 120 years, carefully stored and currently housed at the Alegent Health Immanuel Medical Center campus.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
The Nebraska Memories archive is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. If your institution is interested in participating in Nebraska Memories, see http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nebraskamemories/participation.aspx for more information.
Throwback Thursday: Bill Dean Hewitt
It’s #ThrowbackThursday, which means football soon!
This week’s highlight is a 5″ x 7″ acetate negative, full-figure portrait photograph of Bill Dean Hewitt, David City, Nebraska, wearing football pants, football jersey with the number “59”, helmet, high-top shoes with cleats, socks, with a football cradled in his right arm and his left arm extended in “blocking position”. The photograph is dated 11-27-1940.
This image is published as part of the Boston Studio Project collection, and is owned by both them and the Thorpe Opera House Foundation. The Boston Studio Collection consists of over 68,000 negatives that record life in and around David City, Nebraska from 1893 to 1979.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
The Nebraska Memories archive is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. If your institution is interested in participating in Nebraska Memories, see http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nebraskamemories/participation.aspx for more information.
Throwback Thursday: Standard Chautauqua Performers
Do you hear the ringing this #ThrowbackThursday?
This week’s highlight is an 11″ x 14″ glass plate negative featuring five Standard Chautauqua performers posing behind a semi-circular table holding hand bells of various sizes. The men wear light-colored tuxedos and hold bells over their heads. Standard Chautauqua System was in business at 328 S. 12th Street in Lincoln, and organized lectures and concerts.
This image is published and owned by Townsend Studio, which has been in continuous operation since its foundation in 1888 in Lincoln, Nebraska. The studio holds a collection of glass plate and acetate negatives of early Lincoln and its residents.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
The Nebraska Memories archive is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. If your institution is interested in participating in Nebraska Memories, see http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nebraskamemories/participation.aspx for more information.
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Throwback Thursday: The Good Rain
Enjoy the rain this #ThrowbackThursday!
Dated 1921, “The Good Rain” is a song written by Thurlow Lieurance, faculty member of the University School of Music, Lincoln, Nebraska. This is an example of a composition from the so-called Indianist Movement.
The score reads:
THE GOOD RAIN
CHAS. [Charles] ROOS
THURLOW LIEURANCE
O’er the thirsty land walks the good, good rain. Tra la
In the dripping trees cat-birds complain. Tra la
Far down the east the lightning gleams,
Above dark hills the Eagle screams.
The green leaves lift to meet the rain, Tra la
Where melons grow on the sandy plain. “Tra la”
Warm in her lodge, the maiden sings “Tra la.”
Of the ripening corn The good rain brings. “Tra la.”
This image and musical performance is published and owned by the Polley Music Library (Lincoln City Libraries, Lincoln, Nebraska), which contains just over two hundred fifty pieces of Nebraska sheet music, as well as concert programs, manuscripts, theatre programs, photographs, and other Nebraska memorabilia which features an element of music. You can also listen to a dozen performances of selections from this music collection performed by local musicians.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
The Nebraska Memories archive is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. If your institution is interested in participating in Nebraska Memories, see http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nebraskamemories/participation.aspx for more information.
Throwback Thursday: Musicians on Stage
Sit back and enjoy the music this #ThrowbackThursday!
This week’s highlight is a black and white photograph on a postcard of musicians on a stage taken around 1907-1917. They include two women and four men with three of the men holding their stringed instruments. The photograph has been cut in the shape of a violin.
This image is owned and published by the Nebraska State Historical Society. They digitized content from the John Nelson and the J. A. Anderson collection. John Nelson came to Nebraska with his parents at the age of seventeen from Sweden. His photographs tell the story of small town life in Nebraska during the first decades of the twentieth century. John A. Anderson was born in Sweden in 1869. He came to Nebraska with his parents and settled in Cherry County. He worked as a civilian photographer for the army at Fort Niobrara (Nebraska) and later worked as a clerk at the Rosebud Reservation (South Dakota) trading post.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
The Nebraska Memories archive is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. If your institution is interested in participating in Nebraska Memories, see http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nebraskamemories/participation.aspx for more information.
Throwback Thursday: Football Practice
Football season is here #ThrowbackThursday!
This week’s highlight is a black and white photograph taken of the Wayne State College football team. Members of the 1938 football team get ready to execute a play during a practice session. Their coach (probably head coach Jim Morrison) watches over them to the left.
This image is published and owned by Wayne State College. The Wayne State College Library digitized selected photographs from its archives in a continuing effort to preserve and make accessible photographs depicting the history of Wayne State College and the region it serves. Photographs included in this archive show the buildings and grounds of the campus, athletic teams, the Student Army Training Corps, and other groups while slightly later images show famous visitors to the campus.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
The Nebraska Memories archive is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. If your institution is interested in participating in Nebraska Memories, see http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nebraskamemories/participation.aspx for more information.
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Throwback Thursday: Arithmetic Class
School is back in session #ThrowbackThursday!
This week’s highlight shows a group of students inside a classroom at McKinley School in this 9-1/2″ x 7-1/2″ black and white photograph. Most of the students are sitting at wooden desks, while other s are standing near the wall. One student is holding a school pennant. The room has windows on both visible walls and a wooden floor. A chalkboard runs along one wall, and there are two planters hanging from the ceiling. McKinley School was located at 230 S. 15th Street in Lincoln, Nebraska from 1902 to 1927. It was used as an elementary school until 1915 when it became a “special school with grades 1-9 with prevocational and evening classes.” The school building was constructed in 1902 for a cost of $35,319.50. The contractor was T.P. Harrison.
This image is owned and published by the Lincoln Public Schools. Over the past 15 years, the Library Media Services Department has made a deliberate attempt to collect, preserve, and archive the history of Lincoln public schools and make various items available to the staff and also the public.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
The Nebraska Memories archive is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. If your institution is interested in participating in Nebraska Memories, see http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nebraskamemories/participation.aspx for more information.
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Throwback Thursday: Headquarters Ranch in Wheeler County, Nebraska
Reporting to headquarters this #ThrowbackThursday!
This week’s highlight is a black and white stereoscopic photograph of a Renaissance Revival-style house on the A.T. “Headquarters” Ranch in Wheeler County, Nebraska. The house, a two-story concrete block structure, has a hipped roof with flared eaves, gabled pedimented dormer windows at the attic level, a porch running the front length of the house, and two large corbelled brick chimneys extending from the roof. Information printed on item: John Nelson, Photographer, Ericson, Nebr. U.S.A.
According the the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, the concrete blocks for the house, built in 1906, were made on site. Because it was centrally-located on the 40,000+ acre ranch and was used as a post office 1908-1909, the house became known as “The Headquarters.” The name Headquarters later “was also used in reference to the A.T. Ranch.” Owned by the Allerton-Thompson Cattle Company, the ranch provided cattle for the stockyards owned by Samuel W. Allerton, a millionaire from Chicago. Allerton’s nephews, A.C. and Charles Thompson, who managed the ranch, built the house. The ranch acreage was sold off in 1916-1917.
This image is owned and published by the Nebraska State Historical Society. They digitized content from the John Nelson and the J. A. Anderson collection. John Nelson came to Nebraska with his parents at the age of seventeen from Sweden. His photographs tell the story of small town life in Nebraska during the first decades of the twentieth century. John A. Anderson was born in Sweden in 1869. He came to Nebraska with his parents and settled in Cherry County. He worked as a civilian photographer for the army at Fort Niobrara (Nebraska) and later worked as a clerk at the Rosebud Reservation (South Dakota) trading post.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
The Nebraska Memories archive is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. If your institution is interested in participating in Nebraska Memories, see http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nebraskamemories/participation.aspx for more information.
Throwback Thursday: Pigs and Horses
It’s a full barnyarn this #ThrowbackThursday!
This week’s highlight is a black and white photograph dated around 1907-1917 on a postcard of a man and woman standing outside a wood frame building. There are also a number of pigs, a few chickens, and four horses.
This image is owned and published by the Nebraska State Historical Society. They digitized content from the John Nelson and the J. A. Anderson collection. John Nelson came to Nebraska with his parents at the age of seventeen from Sweden. His photographs tell the story of small town life in Nebraska during the first decades of the twentieth century. John A. Anderson was born in Sweden in 1869. He came to Nebraska with his parents and settled in Cherry County. He worked as a civilian photographer for the army at Fort Niobrara (Nebraska) and later worked as a clerk at the Rosebud Reservation (South Dakota) trading post.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
The Nebraska Memories archive is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. If your institution is interested in participating in Nebraska Memories, see http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nebraskamemories/participation.aspx for more information.
Throwback Thursday: Horse Pulled Merry-Go-Round
We’re going round and around this #ThrowbackThursday!
This week’s highlight is a black and white photograph dated around 1907-1917 on a postcard of a horse pulled merry-go-round with people sitting on it. The merry-go-round is a round flat wooden surface with secured benches for people to sit on. A horse in the center pulls the ride into motion. More people are standing around the ride.
This image is owned and published by the Nebraska State Historical Society. They digitized content from the John Nelson and the J. A. Anderson collection. John Nelson came to Nebraska with his parents at the age of seventeen from Sweden. His photographs tell the story of small town life in Nebraska during the first decades of the twentieth century. John A. Anderson was born in Sweden in 1869. He came to Nebraska with his parents and settled in Cherry County. He worked as a civilian photographer for the army at Fort Niobrara (Nebraska) and later worked as a clerk at the Rosebud Reservation (South Dakota) trading post.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
The Nebraska Memories archive is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. If your institution is interested in participating in Nebraska Memories, see http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nebraskamemories/participation.aspx for more information.
Throwback Thursday: Burlington Station, Omaha, Neb.
Take a look at this #ThrowbackThursday!
This week’s highlight is a 14 x 9 cm sepia-toned postcard with an exterior view of the western and northern sides of the Burlington railroad depot at 925 South 10th Street in Omaha, Nebraska. This is a partial view of the front facade of the building.
Burlington station, just south of Union Station on 10th Street, was designed by Thomas Rogers Kimball. The $350,000 Indiana limestone structure was finished just in time for the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Expo. The 10th Street entrance boasted 28 columns, each weighing 18,000 pounds. The interior iron staircase was patterned after a French Chateau. A $1 million renovation in 1930 removed the columns, creating a more classical style. The columns are now on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus near Memorial Stadium. The station was closed in 1971 and has remained vacant.
This image is owned and published by the Omaha Public Library. The items on the Nebraska Memories archive include early Omaha-related maps dating from 1922 to 1925, as well as over 1,000 postcards and photographs of the Omaha area.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
The Nebraska Memories archive is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. If your institution is interested in participating in Nebraska Memories, see http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nebraskamemories/participation.aspx for more information.
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Throwback Thursday: Mitchell City Hall
Happy #ThrowbackThursday!
This week’s highlight is a 7-1/8″ x 5″ black and white photograph that pictures Mitchell City Hall, a two-story rectangular brick building sitting on a corner with multiple entrances. At the narrow end, a sign over the entry says, “City Hall.” Over the far left entry on the long side of the building is a sign that says, “Fire Department.” However, the arched doorways for fire wagons or engines have been converted to conventional doors–one all glass with a single door and one bricked in except for a door and two small windows. The photo is dated around 1970-1975. The Mitchell City Hall was built in 1922 and, at one time, housed the library on the second floor.
This image is published and owned by the Mitchell Public Library. Local historian Jane Hills Bowman collected pictures and stories about Mitchell’s early years. Her collection includes street scenes from the early 1900s that are some of the earliest images of Mitchell’s business district. The collection also contains photographs of Mitchell’s first public school buildings.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
The Nebraska Memories archive is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. If your institution is interested in participating in Nebraska Memories, see http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nebraskamemories/participation.aspx for more information.
Throwback Thursday: Children Looking at Picture Books
How’s your summer reading going this #ThrowbackThursday?
This week’s highlight has four children looking at books next to a dark-colored panel truck in this 2-1/2″ x 4-1/8″ black and white photograph. The door on the side of the truck is open, revealing books on shelves. The bookmobile has “Nebraska Public Library Commission” printed on the door.
This image is published and owned by the Nebraska Library Commission. The collections include material on the history of libraries in the state of Nebraska, items from the 1930s related to the Nebraska Public Library Commission bookmobile, as well as items showcasing the history of Nebraska’s state institutions.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
The Nebraska Memories archive is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. If your institution is interested in participating in Nebraska Memories, see http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nebraskamemories/participation.aspx for more information.
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Tagged Bookmobile, Nebraska Library Commission, Throwback Thursday
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Throwback Thursday: Ak-Sar-Ben, Illumination, Omaha, Nebr.
Enjoy a glowing summer night this #ThrowbackThursday!
This week’s highlight is a postcard, number 5285, picturing 18th and Farnam streets in Omaha, Nebraska at night in the 1920s, with buildings outlined and illuminated by electric lights. A lit welcome sign spans the street.
This image is owned and published by the Omaha Public Library. The items on the Nebraska Memories archive include early Omaha-related maps dating from 1922 to 1925, as well as over 1,000 postcards and photographs of the Omaha area.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
The Nebraska Memories archive is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. If your institution is interested in participating in Nebraska Memories, see http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nebraskamemories/participation.aspx for more information.
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Throwback Thursday: Splash Day
Beat the heat this #ThrowbackThursday!
This week’s highlight is a 9 1/2″ x 7 1/2″ black and white photograph of three children playing in a sprinkler on the grounds of the Nebraska Children’s Home Society. Children at the Nebraska Children’s Home were provided many activities to participate in, including playing in the sprinklers during the hot summer months.
This image is published and owned by the Nebraska Children’s Home Society. Chartered September 1, 1893, the Nebraska Children’s Home Society founders had a vision for a better future and believed that every child deserved a family. NCHS offered support and assistance to parents committed to keeping their family together, and provided foster and adoptive homes for children who could not stay with their families. The commitment to “safe and loving care” in a family setting remains a hallmark of NCHS services.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
The Nebraska Memories archive is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. If your institution is interested in participating in Nebraska Memories, see http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nebraskamemories/participation.aspx for more information.
Throwback Thursday: Kinsey Tire and Parking Company, Display Room
Get your wheels turning this #ThrowbackThursday!
This week’s highlight is an interior view of the Kinsey Tire & Parking Company located at 1400 M Street, taken on 9/12/1946. A display unit in the center of the room holds tires, oil and other automobile parts. At the front of the room, two women and two men look at shelves of merchandise, including Scotchlite reflectors, light bulbs, blankets and pillows, and cans of Shaler Rislone.
According to Polk’s City Directory of Lincoln, 1947, Chauncey W.D. Kinsey served as President, Martin L. Quinn as Vice President, and Horace R. Hodgson as Secretary and Treasurer. Previously known as Kinsey Tire and Parking Company, Kinsey’s Inc. offered Nash cars, Mack trucks, Goodyear tires, batteries, gas, oil, storage and accessories.
This image is published and owned by Townsend Studio, which has been in continuous operation since its foundation in 1888 in Lincoln, Nebraska. The studio holds a collection of glass plate and acetate negatives of early Lincoln and its residents.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
The Nebraska Memories archive is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. If your institution is interested in participating in Nebraska Memories, see http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nebraskamemories/participation.aspx for more information.
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Throwback Thursday: Dora Lane
Get dressed to the nines this #ThrowbackThursday!
This week’s highlight is a 3″x4″ glass plate negative, bust portrait photograph of Dora Lane from David City, Nebraska. She is wearing a striped, wool suit with velvet trim on the collar and cuffs, white blouse with lace trim and large black hat with ostrich feather trim. She is sitting, holding a handkerchief in one hand.
This image is published as part of the Boston Studio Project collection, and is owned by both them and the Thorpe Opera House Foundation. The Boston Studio Collection consists of over 68,000 negatives that record life in and around David City, Nebraska from 1893 to 1979.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
The Nebraska Memories archive is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. If your institution is interested in participating in Nebraska Memories, see http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nebraskamemories/participation.aspx for more information.
Throwback Thursday: Team of Horses Plowing
Giddy up #ThrowbackThursday!
This week’s highlight is a black and white stereoscopic photograph on a postcard of a team of horses driven by men. They appear to be plowing. Information printed on item: John Nelson, Commercial Photographer, Ericson, Neb. U.S.A.
This image is owned and published by the Nebraska State Historical Society. They digitized content from the John Nelson and the J. A. Anderson collection. John Nelson came to Nebraska with his parents at the age of seventeen from Sweden. His photographs tell the story of small town life in Nebraska during the first decades of the twentieth century. John A. Anderson was born in Sweden in 1869. He came to Nebraska with his parents and settled in Cherry County. He worked as a civilian photographer for the army at Fort Niobrara (Nebraska) and later worked as a clerk at the Rosebud Reservation (South Dakota) trading post.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
The Nebraska Memories archive is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. If your institution is interested in participating in Nebraska Memories, see http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nebraskamemories/participation.aspx for more information.
Throwback Thursday: Floy Boston and Teddy Bear
Throw on your sunhat this #ThrowbackThursday!
This week’s highlight is a 4″x6″ glass plate negative, portrait photograph of Floy Harriet Boston, taken in 1909 in David City, Nebraska. She is wearing a white dress with gathered skirt, elbow-length sleeves and stand collar, and a white hat with white ribbon surrounding the crown and hanging down the back. She is sitting in silhouette on a bench with a carved back, holding up a stuffed teddy bear. Floy was the daughter of Margaret Patterson and Harvey L. Boston, founder of the Boston Studio in David City, Nebraska. In 1925, she married Aubrey C. Hurlbert. A.C. retired from teaching in 1945 and the Hurlberts moved back to David City where A.C. “Prof” operated the Boston Studio until it was sold to Fred and John McVay in 1973. Floy passed away in 1977.
This image is published as part of the Boston Studio Project collection, and is owned by both them and the Thorpe Opera House Foundation. The Boston Studio Collection consists of over 68,000 negatives that record life in and around David City, Nebraska from 1893 to 1979.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
The Nebraska Memories archive is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. If your institution is interested in participating in Nebraska Memories, see http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nebraskamemories/participation.aspx for more information.
