One of our favorite items in Archives is a scrapbook with drawings Arthur White, working in British Columbia, sent to Irma Higgins here in Kearney in the 1930s. This drawing shows the imagined couple doing various activities, including ice skating. #WinterSports #ArchiveAdventCalendar #drawing #art

One of the many symbols of the season is a tree. We love these various versions of Christmas trees, from the printed card to the handmade renditions. All are included in scrapbooks kept by unkearney.bsky.social Greek organizations and donated to Archives. #ArchiveAdventCalendar #Tree #ChristmasTree

Are YOU sick of hearing the same Christmas songs over and over? I have a solution for you: Christmas songs composed by UNK Music students in the 1920s. Are they good? Um. Well... If you record them, feel free to tag us - we'd love to hear your rendition. #ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasCarol #music

The first mention of #HIV/AIDS in RCP minutes is 6 years after the first AIDS-related death in Britain. The RCPs silence helped the state take advantage of the epidemic to spread fear, introduce queerphobic policies, and cut services such as healthcare #ExploreArchives #EYASilence

One of our favorite sources of festive light is candles. Bernice Halbert's poem, "Candles for Christmas", contains some lovely illustrations of candles, along with the text of the poem. Plus, it's on festive green paper! openspaces.unk.edu/spec-coll/41/ #ArchiveAdventCalendar #FestiveLights #poetry

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

What was on the Thanksgiving menu 100 years ago? For Cyrus Black, it was Canada goose and mallard ducks. Cyrus writes, "if it doesn't wreck me, you will hear from me again some time." Spoiler: he survives and corresponds regularly w the recipient. #Archives #NebraskaOrnithologistsUnion #Thanksgiving

Just a little humor for your Thursday! #southwestcollection #archives #history #specialcollections

Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson was born on this day in 1850. His best-known works include Treasure Island (1883) and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), both of which introduced themes and tropes that persist in popular culture today.

Shut your mouth and save your life, book title or something you were thinking in That One Meeting? As the Medical Heritage Library demonstrates, definitely book title, though we're going to have to go with, why not both? #HistMed archive.org/details/shut...

Even creatures of darkness need to do their banking (undated, from "Old Photos" binder). #archives #Halloween #ArchivesCreepy

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

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

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

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

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 ⤵️

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

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

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

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

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

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]

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...

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...

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.

During the summer of 1935, Jewish businessman Fritz Fürstenberg made a car journey from Berlin to Amsterdam. He took photographs of antisemitic signs on the route to provide evidence of anti-Jewish persecution to audiences outside Germany Find out more: buff.ly/ZgQUslS

Hello Everyone, This summer we will be closed on weekends and open 7:30 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday - Friday. Hope you have a nice summer.

Why archives? They give us voices from the past, whether literally through oral histories or through other evidence. #WhyArchives #Archive30

This includes Chernozem, a poetry magazine in the 1970s. Chernozem published local poets like Don Welch and Hargis and Nancy Westerfield as well as poets from elsewhere. Like many small publications, it was short-lived. archives.nebraska.edu/repositories... #ArchiveCollection #Archive30 #poetry

The first building on campus was the Administration Building, also called Old Main. We ran out of space almost immediately, so added wings on in the decade after its construction. This pic is from the paving of the areas around the building c. 1910 #ArchivesBuildings #Archive30

This letter to Carrie Miller from James E. McAvoy is an archive nightmare - insects have damaged it, obscuring portions of the text, including the date and part of the location. Learn more about the Carrie Miller Collection: archives.nebraska.edu/repositories... #Archive30 #ArchiveNightmares

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

We work with community groups to care for their archives. For the Kearney Centennial Time Capsule, we cleaned mold off what we could, digitized everything, and provided online hosting before returning the items. (Mostly) online at openspaces.unk.edu/kc-capsule/ #CommunityArchives #Archive30

Need some (bad) archives poetry to lighten up your Tuesday? Here you go! From What They Say About J. Perry Philben, the famous healer of Wymore, Nebraska. If you want to see some better Nebraska poetry, join us at the Kearney Public Library tomorrow (4/23/2025) at noon #archives #PoetryMonth #poetry

There's lots of action in baseball. These snaps from the Briggs Collection highlight UNK athletics from years past (1960s and 1970s). #ArchiveAction #Archive30 #archives

Some evergreen advice and study tips for students from Your Cue, Coed! (1945). We're biased, but we definitely think students should go to the library and study. At least today's students are safe from green caps (which denoted class status). #ArchiveAdvice #Archive30 #HistEd #Archives

The Archives has a set of Chinese calligraphy scrolls donated by the artists after a Museum of Nebraska Art exhibit. Laurinda wrote a finding aid for them when they were in a temp position in the early 2010s. We've finally rehoused them in scroll boxes! #MiniMilestones #Archive30

Our #SomethingSmall is 8mm film. This reel is the 1951 Homecoming game, shown on top of a reel of 16mm in a standard movie-size can. #Archive30

📌 Our interactive #RefugeeMap brings to life some of the thousands of stories told by our family papers collections Each Collection on the map traces a refugee family or family member's escape from Nazi-occupied Europe Explore now:

April is National Deaf History Month. In 1644, John Bulwer attempted to record the vocabulary contained in hand gestures through his Chirologia, or the Naturall Language of the Hand. Though the volume is aimed toward orators for use in rhetoric, Bulwer would later advocate for d/Deaf education.

Our intrepid Archivist Jenny attempted to recreate a kolache recipe from Early Nebraska Cooking (openspaces.unk.edu/spec-coll/35) -a major challenge given limited instructions & measures and no cooking temp or time + no compressed yeast availability. They were edible! #ArchiveFoodAndDrink #Archive30