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Official account for the University of Nebraska at Kearney Archives and Special Collections. All things #archives, especially #HistEd
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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
This is from our Special Collections copy: unk.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

It's the first British edition of Lewis & Clark expedition findings.
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
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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
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
Which collections do you wish researchers utilized more?
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
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
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
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
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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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 ⤵️
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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
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
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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
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
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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 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
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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
Keep pedaling 🚲 towards the weekend. You can do it!

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