by DCHSADMIN | Jul 3, 2020 | Blog
Eugenie Whitmore was born on May 22, 1896 to Henry P. and Rosalie A. Whitmore. Mr. Whitmore was a prominent art dealer in Omaha who has been credited for drawing attention to Omaha as a burgeoning cosmopolitan center. His gallery at 1517 Dodge Street brought such...
by DCHSADMIN | Jun 26, 2020 | Blog
One of the exciting parts about working with a historical collection is all the interesting stuff you find while you’re looking for something else. This was the case with a scrapbook that we came across while working on our collection inventory. It had been filed away...
by DCHSADMIN | Jun 12, 2020 | Blog
After spending three weeks looking at the history and the people behind Omaha’s 70-year relationship with the College World Series, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the broader impact that the two entities have had on one another and where the...
by DCHSADMIN | Jun 5, 2020 | Blog
As every college baseball fan knows knows – and the past two weeks’ blogs have shown – the College World Series would not be what it is today without the stadium that saw the CWS grow into a national phenomenon. During its 60 years as host stadium (1950-2010), first...
by DCHSADMIN | May 29, 2020 | Blog
Last week, we looked into the earliest days of the College World Series in Omaha – the first years from 1950-1963 during which the games where held at Omaha’s Municipal Stadium. These were formative years during which Omaha secured a national reputation as the host...
by DCHSADMIN | May 22, 2020 | Blog
June is just around the corner, and for the past 70 years, Omahans have expected the month to bring hordes of baseball fans flocking to town. This year’s cancellation of the College World Series has left thousands, both in Omaha and across the country, missing...
by DCHSADMIN | May 15, 2020 | Blog
In 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, Harold Lippold was 18 years old and unemployed; he had been recently laid off from his job at a local telephone company. According to an interview with his son, “he bought a defunct company with the logo; a witch’s...
by DCHSADMIN | May 8, 2020 | Blog
The morning of Tuesday, May 6, 1975 started out like any other for most people. People went to work, they went to school, ran errands and carried on like it was any other day. That all changed around 12:30 in the afternoon when the National Weather service issued a...
by DCHSADMIN | May 4, 2020 | Blog
One of the recent additions to our collection included these two mascots, both of which belonged to a student at the University of Omaha in the 1960s. The skunk is a handmade toy, which proudly bears the initials of the school, and the toy next to it is a figurine of...
by DCHSADMIN | Apr 24, 2020 | Blog
The Missouri River corridor and the territory that would become Omaha was a global identity and a profitable business investment as much as four centuries ago! Fur trappers from Europe and the East came for beaver to produce top hats highly desired by the gentry of...
