Pictures from the Nebraska State Historical Society Museum in Lincoln.

Doane College time ball, dropped every day at noon on a shaft at the Crete college's Merrell Hall in 1885.

Now this is a knife. It was used by the Burlington Railroad's Pioneer Zephyr streamliner, to cut its own birthday cake in 1944.

A hoax "petrified man" planted and then dug up near Chadron in 1893.

Healing machine from the 1940s.

I love bagels, but I think I'll pass on this one.

Vintage mail delivery wagon.

1879 organ.

Nebraska Native American pipes.

Ball from the top of the first Nebraska State Capital Building.