As part of our latest update, we wanted to pay special attention to a unique newspaper in our collection, The Powder Keg. With a primary run extending from September 1943 to September 1949, The Powder Keg was the newspaper of record for the Naval Ammunition Depot (NAD) built to the southeast of Hastings, Nebraska during…
Read More Nebraska Newspaper Updates (Part III): The Powder KegOur new foreign languages titles include three German titles: The Gordon Journal (which was not in German, but you can read about that in the previous post), The Nebraska Staats-Zeitung, and the Cedar County Wachter. Other titles were the Polish Gwiazda Zachodu : the Western Star and the Italian American Citizen. Here is a photo that I found…
Read More Nebraska Newspaper Updates (Part II): Foreign Language PressI’m very excited to announce that Nebraska Newspapers has recently added more than 100,000 pages of historic Nebraska newspapers. New titles are (in alphabetical order): The American Citizen, The Beatrice Daily Express, the Cedar County Wachter, The Gordon Journal, Gwiazda Zachodu (The Western Star), The Nebraska Staats-Zeitung, The Powder Keg, The South Omaha Stockman, and The…
Read More Nebraska Newspaper Updates (Part I): Community PapersBeginning on January 19, 1919 and running on the Society pages under a six-column headline of “Real, Live, Human Interest Stories About Omaha People” the Omaha Bee ran a series of articles about Omaha’s Eligible Bachelors. My eye was first drawn to this feature by the caricatures that accompanied most (but not all) of the…
Read More Say, boy! Omaha’s Eligible Bachelors of 1919For our April #ChronAmParty, we are celebrating National Pet Day a little late by looking at our furry friends in historic Nebraska newspapers. When I think of pet news, my mind immediately goes to Hollywood’s famous heroic dogs like Rin Tin Tin and Lassie, as seen in this coverage of Rin Tin Tin III during…
Read More ChronAmParty: Pets!For our March #ChronAmParty, we want to spotlight a newly digitized pro-Suffrage paper, The Beatrice Daily Express, and a Suffrage paper — some would argue THE Suffrage paper — The Woman’s Tribune. We have in the past digitized almost the entire run of the Omaha Bee. As a competitor to the Omaha World and the…
Read More Nebraska’s Suffrage NewspapersFor this month’s #ChronAmParty, we are looking at some of Nebraska’s Black newspapers, the Omaha Monitor, the Omaha Guide, and Lincoln’s The Voice, along with one of our newly digitized papers, The Powder Keg. The earliest of these papers is The Monitor (later Omaha Monitor), which ran 1915-1928. In an era when most papers had…
Read More February #ChronAmParty: The Monitor, Guide, and Voice NewspapersAfter years of stringing together #ChronAmParty posts, featuring #CreepySantas or #FashionPlates, for this month’s #ChronAmParty we are trying a new format. Our theme is #RetroFuturism in honor of January’s National Science Fiction Day, celebrated annually on January 2. Nebraska’s newspapers occasionally featured serialized Science Fiction stories, such as The North Platte Weekly Tribune’s publication of…
Read More RetroFuturism ChronAmParty: Science Fiction in Nebraska’s Historic NewspapersFor the past several months, I’ve joined the fast-paced and exhilarating world of the CDRH dev team! Here are some reflections from that time, in no particular order. Working on multiple projects keeps things interesting from a content perspective, but it can also be very helpful for development. You’ll often find something in one project’s…
Read More Reflections from a Temporary DeveloperAfter what felt like a very long spring, summer and fall seemed to fly by! Despite the fast passage of time, the CDRH team has quite a bit of news to share with you about our activities of the past few months. Personnel Changes After 40 years at the university, Kay Walter is retiring from…
Read More Summer and Fall 2020 in the CDRH