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Dreamland Ballroom

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The Dreamland Ballroom was located on the second floor of the Jewell building at 2221 North 24th Street. This ballroom in the heart of North Omaha was…

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Ralph Orduna of the Tuskeegee Airmen

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Ralph Orduna was born in Omaha and went to Westside Elementary and South High School. He began working at the Martin Bomber Plant sometime after it…

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Patricia "Big Mama" Barron

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Patricia Barron, owner and operator of “Big Mama’s Kitchen,” has lived in North Omaha her entire life. Her family was one of many African American…

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Native Omaha Days

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Native Omaha Days is a bi-annual community event that was established in 1976. The event works as a homecoming for Native Omahans who have left the…

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Warren Taylor

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Mr. Warren Taylor shared items from three distinct locations and time periods: a 1925 Business Guide produced by the Colored Commercial Club of Omaha,…

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Betty Stukenholtz

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Collection of objects Betty Stukenholtz shared at the Nebraska City History Harvest event, September 12, 2010.

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Janice Cleary

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Janice M Cleary, a lifelong resident of Omaha, Nebraska, has always enjoyed music. Her father studied voice, and her parents sang in the St. John’s…

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Bill Moore

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Mr. Moore shared stories of living in small-town Nebraska during the Great Depression, and travelling on the railroad at the end of World War II at…

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Phyllis Witte

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The objects Phyllis Witte shared at the Nebraska City History Harvest event held at the Lewis and Clark Missouri River Basin Visitors Center on…

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Otoe County Museum

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A Mechanical Coin Bank Phyllis Witte presented on behalf of the Otoe County Museum at the Nebraska City History Harvest event held at the Lewis and…

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