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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…

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

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

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

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.

This is a photograph of Jan Svagera in civilian dress. Jan Svagera was C.J. Svagera's great grandfather; he arrived in the United States from Moravia in 1912.

This is a photograph of James Moody playing tenor sax with the Dizzy Gillespie Band at the Dreamland Ballroom in 1948. The Dizzy Gillespie Band, and other popular jazz and big band musicians brought a large crowds to The Dreamland Ballroom in North…

The Duba family tree traces the family back to Bohemia in the 1600s. The Duba family immigrated to the United States in the 1870s. Alvin Duba is part of the third generation of Dubas born in the United States.