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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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UNK Archives @unkarchives.bsky.social · 1d

This is from our Special Collections copy: unk.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

It's the first British edition of Lewis & Clark expedition findings.

UNK Archives @unkarchives.bsky.social · 1d

Can't trust those Canadians; they say they see unicorns, with horns like ammonites.

...love you, northern neighbours!

From Travels in the Interior Parts of America : Communicating Discoveries Made in Exploring the Missouri, Red River, and Washita (1807)
#HistSci #Archives #Ammonites

A Canadian, who had been much with the Indians to the westward, speaks of a wool-bearing animal, larger than a sheep, the wool much mixed with hair, which he had seen in large flocks. He pretends also to have seen a unicorn, the single horn of which, he says, rises out of the forehead and curls back, conveying the idea of the fossil cornu ammonis

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UNR Special Collections and University Archives @unr-scua.bsky.social · 13d

Hey Archivists - do you have patrons interested in Western US politics and public service? We’re accepting applications for non-Nevadans to win a $5000 award to come do research in our collections!! Applications close in TWO WEEKS. Please share widely! #AskAnArchivist #PoliticalScience

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UNK Archives @unkarchives.bsky.social · 12d

While we (pretend to) love all our collections equally, we'd love to see someone dig into the Harding family collection: archives.nebraska.edu/repositories... The letters between Callie and her friends are particularly fun. #archives #AskAnArchivist

Nathan Tye, PhD @hobohistory.bsky.social · 12d

Which collections do you wish researchers utilized more?

UNK Archives @unkarchives.bsky.social · 13d

We're having a "what is time?" kind of month. Soooo although Ask an Archivist Day is done, ask us All The Questions (whenever you'd like; that's what we're here for).
#AskAnArchivist #archives

Light bulb and question marks. UNK Archives & Special Collections text treatment

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UNK Archives @unkarchives.bsky.social · 23d

Watch out for sharks, at least if you're the Pittsburg State Gorillas in 1975! This was one of many entries in the @unkearney.bsky.social Homecoming lawn decorating competition. That year's theme: Cartoon Carnival.
#UNKHomecoming2025 #archives #Snoopy

Lawn decoration in front of the library. A shark is eating a gorilla, Snoopy is on a ship. Sign reads: put the bite on the gorillas

UNK Archives @unkarchives.bsky.social · 24d

As @unkearney.bsky.social kicks off Homecoming Week, we're flashing back 75 years. Lawn decorating isn't on the schedule this year, but who could resist this 1950 shot? It has it all: dragons & knights, plus bad puns!
#Archives #UNKHomecoming2025

lawn decorations in front of a brick building. A dragon with a Doane sign is battled by a Nebraska State College knight. Banner reads "Let's keep doane duckin and send them home dragon"

UNK Archives @unkarchives.bsky.social · 28d

We join the world in mourning the passing of Dr. Jane Goodall. She visited @unkearney.bsky.social in 2005. Part of her remarks highlight hope: "However grim and bleak the world seems today, it will change. Each one of us can do our bit."

openspaces.unk.edu/unkantelope/...
#JaneGoodall #Archives

"More and more species are vanishing," she said. "And as people say, extinction is forever." Although Goodall has seen many horrible things happening to the planet and its living beings, sh still has not lost her hope and trust in the human beings and their abilities to change the world in a positive way. "I would not stand here talking about hope without hope," she said. "Every individual makes a difference everyday. How can we not use those amazing brains we have?" Goodall said that there are four reasons for hope: the human brain that recognized the problems we have on our planet, motivated young people, the indomitable nature of human spirit, and the resilience of nature.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 29d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Sep 16

Book bans get headlines, but the bigger threat to books is hiding in plain sight: A handful of companies control how ebooks reach readers, and they can cut off access with a click.

New from @mariabustillos.com in @columjournreview.bsky.social ⤵️

Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · Sep 16

There's a bigger threat to books than bans: monopoly of distribution, by @mariabustillos.com.
www.cjr.org/analysis/the...

There's a bigger threat to books than bans.

Access to e-books relies entirely on private distributors that have the power to shut them off at any moment.

www.cjr.org

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SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · Sep 9

9 September 1947: The first computer bug was found - a moth caught in a relay in a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University. #History

The moth that was the first actual computer "bug"

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UNK Archives @unkarchives.bsky.social · Aug 28

This #ThrowbackThursday, we're featuring a 1969 #poem from an alt newspaper, The Scorpion. The Scorpion was a liberal response to conservative Kearney campus culture during the Vietnam War

Want to read more? It's available: openspaces.unk.edu/scorpion/6/
#archives #VietnamWar #poetry

Typed poem: Tale of the General. The General sat and cried, called for mama, But she had died. Summoned the priestest, And they went to bed, In the morning she was dead. Millions of men, Could he kill, with plastic G.I. Joes, But he only got 2 X 10, For that was all his fingers and toes. Don Weikle

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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thistle hopefully brighten your Friday! 💐

We hope you have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend.

📷 Illustration of spear, marsh, creeping and woolly thistles from ‘The Flowering Plants of Great Britain’ (1855) by Anne Pratt [Baring-Gould Library 0691]

#FridayFlowers #FlowersOnFriday #RareBooks

Cropped image of an opened book with text on the right hand page but focusing on a full-page colour illustration of spear thistles, marsh thistles, creeping thistles and woolly thistles on the left hand page. The illustration uses shades of purple, yellow and green.

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UNK Archives @unkarchives.bsky.social · Aug 22

Welcome back to campus! We hope y'all can join us for @unkearney.bsky.social Blue and Gold (5-8pm, 8/22). Blue and Gold is a long-running tradition. These pics are from the 1997 version, which came complete with carnival rides. We can't promise that today, but there will be food! #UNK #Archives

White man in an apron serving food outside to a Black woman in a yellow shirt and blue pants

Man sitting in an outdoor dunk tank next to a yellow screen with a target

Tables with food set up on pavement outsidethe Nebraska Student Union building

Sizzler and other carnival rides set up in front of classroom buildings

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · Aug 21

Here's something we've not yet shared to Bluesky from the old site: This illustration from the Drayton Parslow Parish Register, 1785. It opens a section on baptisms.

The Drayton Parslow Parish Register, 1785. There are several notes of marriages and baptisms, alongside an illustration of a baptism.

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UNK Archives @unkarchives.bsky.social · Jul 24

The weather is heating up here. We hope y'all are coping, whether with some cooling wading like these 1910s Nebraska State Normal School at Kearney students or hanging out in the lovely AC at @unklibrary.bsky.social
#ThrowbackThursday #Archives #Nebraska

1910s photograph of four women with linked arms, wearing long dresses and standing knee-deep in a lake

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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · Jul 18

Today is Nelson Mandela Day, a day to remember the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela, born on 18 July 1918.

These items are from the archive of the Exeter and District Anti-Apartheid Group.

📷 EUL MS 216

#NelsonMandelaInternationalDay #NelsonMandelaDay #AntiApartheid #Archives #OTD #OnThisDay

Cover of pamphlet entitled 'Nelson Mandela I am prepared to die', published by the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa, featuring a black and white photograph of Nelson Mandela.

Three different badges all displaying the message 'Free Nelson Mandela'.

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UNK Archives @unkarchives.bsky.social · Jul 17

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UNK Archives @unkarchives.bsky.social · Jul 17

Keep pedaling 🚲 towards the weekend. You can do it!

Undated image from the Kearney State College Bike Bowl
#Archives #KearneyStateCollege #tricycle

People riding tricycles on a track with many spectators in the bleachers

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Jul 15

New from Internet Archive Canada: Queen’s University Library has digitized a collection of rare, self-published sci-fi & fantasy fanzines, making long-lost voices from 1940s–1980s more widely accessible.

⚔️ Start your side quest: blog.archive.org/2025/07/15/s...

@internetarchiveca.bsky.social

Cover of Dark Fantasy No. 22 (1980), published by Shadow Press. The title is printed in bold, stylized yellow and black text at the top. The central illustration features a medieval knight in armor leaning against a large, leaf-covered tree, holding a bow and arrows. A castle is faintly visible in the background. A diagonal black-and-yellow banner across the bottom reads, “Nominated for 10 SPWAO Awards.” Price is listed as $1.50.

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UNK Archives @unkarchives.bsky.social · Jul 1

For National Stamp Day, here's the great 1958 Freedom of the Press stamp. This one was used to mail a letter to Dr. Henry E. Baumgarten. Baumgarten was involved with the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union (NOU). We've partnered with NOU to digitize their archives. #NationalStampDay #Archives #Stamps

U.S. Postage 4 cents. Freedom of the Press. Illustration of a hand holding a quill.

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · Jun 26

You’ve heard of the Pink Pony Club, but what about the Plush Pony Club?

During the early 1990s, Plush Pony was an iconic lesbian bar located in the El Sereno neighborhood of East Los Angeles that catered to working-class Mexican and Chicana women. [🧵1/3]

Plush Pony #5: Portrait of a lesbian woman with hands on her hips starring directly into the camera. They have a short cropped, greaser-style haircut. They are in front of a typical photo studio backdrop, but are inside of the Plush Pony lesbian bar.

Plush Pony #6. Portrait of three woman dressed in club outfits who are implied to be lesbians. The first and third woman are wearing dresses, but the second woman in the middle is wearing a polo and slacks. They are posed closely together and smiling indicating they have a friendly bond between them. They are in front of a typical photo studio backdrop, but are inside of the Plush Pony lesbian bar.

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Physicians' Gallery @physiciansgallery.bsky.social · Jun 11

A handy 18thc cure for stupidity. Just swop your cup of tea for Hyssopus officinalis, a medicinal plant

Find out more about the history of tea in our exhibition ‘Hooked’ www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/hoo...

Printed text, reads: For a stupid person. Any who finds a stupidness, and forgetfulness, in themselves, they ought to drink Hysop always instead of Tea, and in so doing, by using it as Tea, for 14 or 15 days, they will suddenly find the good thereof. Probatum est.

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · Jun 11

From 'Breathe through your nose' to 'Care for your feet', a cast of largely unimpressed London infants spreading the municipal health message in 1938

More excellent health advice available through our digitised sources on British healthcare, 1900-1948, at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

Photograph of 13 small children captioned 'Performance of the Council's propaganda play "A Health Pageant," by the scholars of an L.C.C. Infants' School'. One child is dressed as a possible nurse. The rest are wearing placards containing a range of public health messages including 'Play in the open', 'Bath often', 'Clean your teeth', 'Haste to bed' and 'Drink water'. Only one of them ('Play in the Open') looks particularly happy about the situation. The image is from 'Health and cleanliness : a text book for teachers', published by the Health and Cleanliness Council in 1938.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · Jun 10

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

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