by DCHSADMIN | Mar 31, 2023 | Uncategorized
By: Tara Spencer Being the first to do something isn’t easy. But being the first woman or person of color to do something comes with its own set of challenges. Those pioneers are often met with more vitriol than accolades—and that kind of contempt can be doubled, and...
by DCHSADMIN | Mar 17, 2023 | Blog
By: Liz Boutin On February 12, 1908, a crowd of about 250,000 people gathered in Times Square in New York City to witness the beginning of an automobile race. The race would run from New York to Paris, with six teams competing, representing Germany, France, Italy, and...
by DCHSADMIN | Feb 17, 2023 | Blog
By: Rita Shelley Ella Mahammitt was an Omaha journalist, civil rights advocate, and women’s rights activist. From 1891 until 1897, she edited The Enterprise, a black weekly newspaper published here. Image source: The Enterprise, Easter edition, 1896. Newspapers.com....
by DCHSADMIN | Feb 3, 2023 | Blog
By Tara Spencer In the late 1930s, a group of men in New York City decided they wanted to show off their culinary talents to their peers. Thus, the Society of Amateur Chefs was formed. Their first organizational meeting was held at the Hotel New Yorker in October,...
by DCHSADMIN | Jan 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
By: Natalie Kammerer Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy as a civil rights leader is reflected in the history of the school that was named for him. It was the first Omaha Public School named for an African American, and the first commemoration of Dr. King in Omaha. Its...
by DCHSADMIN | Dec 23, 2022 | Blog
By: Natalie Kammerer In continuation of our holiday exhibit and blog series dedicated to Highlighting our Heroes, we’ve done a deep-dive into some of our collections that tell the early history of Omaha’s Fire Department. We unfortunately don’t have names to put to...
by DCHSADMIN | Dec 9, 2022 | Blog
By: Tara Spencer There’s something about the dainty, plucky sound of a ukulele that immediately puts one at ease. Perhaps it’s the association with Hawaii—a paradise on Earth—or the often soothing voices that accompany it, such as Israel Kamakawiwo‘ole and Queen...
by DCHSADMIN | Nov 18, 2022 | Blog
By Rita Shelley For her coming out party in 1890, Miss Anna Millard wore a Paris gown of pale pink mousseline de soie, trimmed with a garland of tiny pink hyacinth buds. The daughter of former mayor and First National Bank President Ezra Millard also wore hyacinths in...
by DCHSADMIN | Oct 28, 2022 | Blog
By Tara Spencer Every community has its own tales of spiritual happenings, hauntings, and horror. In my hometown, there was an abandoned house known simply as Unity where people claimed to have seen buckets of blood in the barn and experienced forces pushing them and...
by DCHSADMIN | Oct 14, 2022 | Blog
By Rita Shelley This story started as one about several dresses in the DCHS textiles collection. When Collections Coordinator Natalie Kammerer proposed the idea of delving into the history of several of dresses in the Society’s archives, she explained that they had...
