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Jan Svagera in the uniform of a lieutenant of the Czechoslovak Legion. The uniform is similiar to French uniforms of the time as the legion was supplied mostly by the French.

Portrait of Jan Svagera in his lieutenant’s uniform during World War I.

Jan Svagera playing accordion standing near his delivery truck for the grocery store he opened in Omaha after World War I.

This video is an account of Janet Fenton explaining what she brought to the Dannebrog History Harvest.

Janice Cleary discussed a few of the pieces of sheet music she shared with History Harvest. Mrs. Cleary brought in several pieces with connections to Omaha, NE, but her entire collection contains nearly 50,000 pieces of American popular music. In…

This Japanese Nambu firearm is an 8-MM caliber. Its serial number is 58668. Its note with the weapon states that it came from the South Pacific during World War Two. The crude workmanship on the firearm suggests that it was made hastily for a…

Japanese Yen, currency collected during WWII.

This is a 1941 publicity photo for Jay McShann and his Big Band, which included Charlie "Yardbird" Parker.

Organ player Michael Andre Lewis was born in Omaha in 1948 and grew up in a musical family. Lewis’s father played saxophone with Count Basie, served as bandleader to Fats Domino and Etta James, and also played locally with Preston Love’s orchestra. …