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This collage features a number of advertisements from Black-owned businesses in North Omaha. The collage demonstrates the variety of businesses that thrived in North Omaha in the 1950s. The advertisements include restaurants, bars, realtors, and…

A group of African American men in North Omaha reporting for induction into the military during World War II. Despite a segregated U.S. military, nearly four million African American soldiers served their country during WWII.

This Czech-American cookbook was meant to be an introduction to practical home cooking.

A cemetery lot purchase agreement for George W. Joy. The lot was purchased from the Oak Grove Cemetery Association in Nuckolls County, Nebraska.

Samuel L. Roberts or his wife kept this spare Oath of Identity blank form with other documents attesting to Roberts's record in the Civil War to have it on hand in the process for applying for pension. When filled the document would testify that the…

The Family of Bill Dean collection includes many death notices cut out of mostly German-language newspapers. These four notices tell of Carl Christian Schuetz's death almost two years after he sustained injury in a tornado. A barn collapsed on him,…

This is a photograph of a newspaper clipping of the obituary of Mrs. Florence McLeod.

Anna Karel's obituary. She died at the home of her daughter on April 7, 1925 at the age of 81.

An obituary describing sudden and unexpected death of James Karel, Václav Karel's son. James Karel died at this home on January 1, 1918 at the age of 33.

Obituary of John Wokoun, Great-Great Grandfather of Raymond and Jim Musil. John Wokoun was born in Bohemia in 1832. He came to the United States in 1864 died in 1911 at the age of 79 near Dubois, Nebraska.