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Nathan Tye, PhD

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Historian at the University of Nebraska-Kearney. Studies hobos, transient labor, and literary history.

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Nathan Tye, PhD @hobohistory.bsky.social · 13d

Which collections do you wish researchers utilized more?

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 25d

nowadays, the whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · Sep 18

bank (1889), willa cather history center, up detail, webster street, red cloud, nebraska, 1988

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Aug 16

📣 Curran Fellowships are now OPEN! Per our most recent newsletter, we've moved up our Curran awards to allow recipients time to plan summer travel. Applications due Oct. 15. As always, guidelines and more info are on our website!
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The Curran Fellowships – RSVP

The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Jul 2

go on, go on

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UNK Archives @unkarchives.bsky.social · Apr 24

Our most popular item is Song of the Great Blizzard: "Thirteen were saved": or, Nebraska's fearless maid. During an 1888 blizzard, teacher Minnie Freeman saved her 13 students by walking to the nearest house 3/4 mile away. Available: openspaces.unk.edu/spec-coll/10/ #PopularItem #Archive30 #archives

Song of the Great Blizzard 1888, "Thirteen Were Saved" or Nebraska's Fearless Maid. Song and Chorus by Wm. Vincent. Published by Lyon & Healy, Chicago. Includes an etching of a woman holding a child, followed by other children trudging through heavy snow

Sheet music Thirteen were saved; or Nebraska's Fearless Maid (An incident of the terrible blizzard throughout the Northwest in January, 1888)

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UNK Archives @unkarchives.bsky.social · Apr 1

Happy #Archive30 to all! We're the University of Nebraska at Kearney Archives & Special Collections; excuse the mess - we got new shelving. We're on the 2nd floor of the @unklibrary.bsky.social. We specialize in history of education, central & western NE, and UNK. Come visit! #YourArchive

Wire shelving with a jumble of oversized framed items

Bankers boxes on shelves with odd sized items on carts

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Calvin T. Ryan Library @unklibrary.bsky.social · Feb 11

Due to inclement weather the library will be closed tomorrow.

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AHA Career Center @historyjobs.bsky.social · Dec 18

New History Job Posted Today: Assistant Professor of History (Public History) | University of Nebraska at Kearney

Assistant Professor of History (Public History) | University of Nebraska at Kearney

Kearney, Nebraska, The Department of History at the University of Nebraska at Kearney invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of History (Public History) to contribute to the university’s growing undergraduate and graduate programs in…

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · Dec 20

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
December 19,1953

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER

NANCY- - WHAT DOES SANTA
LOOK LIKE ?

OH, HE'S A BIG, JOLLY FAT MAN

WITH ROSY, RED CHEEKS- - A NOSE LIKE A CHERRY, AND A PACK ON HIS BACK

OH, SANTA - - -HERE'S MY CHRISTMAS LIST

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Nathan Tye, PhD @hobohistory.bsky.social · Dec 14

A Canadian treasure, but it's important to remember its rooted in minor league American baseball, of course: tomhawthorn.blogspot.com/2010/12/chuc...

Chuck Eisenmann, trainer of Littlest Hobo (1918-2010)

Chuck Eisenmann, then with the Kearney (Neb.) Irishmen baseball team, shows off one of the stunts taught to his German shepherd, London, the...

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Calvin T. Ryan Library @unklibrary.bsky.social · Nov 13

UNK Giving Day 2024 starts at noon! Support the Calvin T. Ryan Library to help us keep offering valuable resources, study spaces, and services to all Lopers. Join us November 13-14, from noon to noon, and show your support at givingday.unk.edu/organization....
#onedayforunk

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UNK Archives @unkarchives.bsky.social · Nov 13

Welcome, new followers! We're the University of Nebraska at Kearney Archives & Special Collections. Besides institutional history, we focus on
- central and western #Nebraska
- history of education #HistEd

We also have lots from Nebraskans abroad as well as Great Plains #HistSciMed

#archives

Black and white pics of students in a library

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