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This image focuses on two advertisements for music events at the Dreamland Ballroom in North Omaha. The musicians and bands pictured are Duke Ellington and Anna Mae Winburn and her International Sweethearts of Rhythm. It was not uncommon for the…

This image focuses on a few advertisements for music events at the Dreamland Ballroom in North Omaha. The musicians and bands pictured are The Ravens, Earl Hines, Louis Jordan, and Terry Gordon. For interviews and oral histories of this and other…

This image features several advertisements for music events at Carnation Ballroom and the Off-Beat Supper Club in North Omaha. The musicians and bands include James Brown, Lloyd Price, and The Clovers. For interviews and oral histories of this and…

Florence Pinkston-Mitchell was a prominent piano teacher in North Omaha for many years during the mid-twentieth century. Art and music lessons were an important part of a child’s education for most middle-class African Americans. Over the years,…

A flier containing an artists rendering of Joe Vosoba's great-grandmother who immigrated near Crete, Nebraska. Vosoba's great-grandmother and great-grandfather homesteaded in Nebraska in the 1860's.

This photograph of Mrs. Albert Johnson was brought in by Linda Sterner-Hanson to the Custer County History Harvest.

This Mother's Day greeting card is addressed to Mrs. H.H. Fleming of Norse Bluff, Nebraska. It is from her son, Quintin R. Fleming who was stationed overseas, however it is not know exactly where he was at the time. It is dated on April 25, 1945.

Joseph F. Karel and Annie Karel's mortgage document. Joseph F. Karel and his wife Annie Karel executed their mortgage unto The Prudential Insurance Company of America, of Newark, New Jersey in 1922.

Postcard with black and white photograph of the damage left by a tornado that went through Kearney, Nebraska on June 6, 1908.

This is most possibly a receipt for the money Gottlieb Schuetz's in-law relative lent him to help move from the district of Burgdorf in Switzerland to Humboldt, Nebraska in the spring of 1870. The sums of money mentioned, $132.82 and $64.60 would…