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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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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

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…

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…

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

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…