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 1919After 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 CDRHJust as it impacted so many people and organizations this spring, Covid-19 has fundamentally changed how the CDRH team works with each other day to day. In mid-March, carrying houseplants and microfilm readers and in some cases entire desktop computers, we vacated the CDRH and set up home workstations. Despite the new circumstances, we’ve been…
Read More Spring 2020 (not) in the CDRHNebraska Newspapers Since 2007, the CDRH has been cultivating our web-based time machine, Nebraska Newspapers, in partnership with the Library of Congress’s National Digital Newspapers Program (NDNP) and funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). At time of writing, we currently have published 45 newspapers with full text and high resolution…
Read More Repairing the Nebraska Newspapers Space-Time Continuum