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These two admission tickets a Chautauqua event, organized by a recently established (1898) Texas-Colorado Chautauqua Association belonged to F.J. Nelson of Axtell, Nebraska. Chautauqua is an institute of short two-three week schools for popular adult…

Handwritten letter of German POW Arthur [family name unknown] to Seidel family in Tipton, Kansas, where we worked briefly as a farm laborer.

Giuseppe and Giuseppina, step siblings via the marriage of Domenico and Antonina Scaletta, married each other and spent their initial time in Omaha, Ne. In May of 1897 they had their first child, Lena Bondi. This photo shows Lena holding the baby…

This photo shows the Caniglia cousins, family of Joe Caniglia, in the backyard of one of their houses in Little Italy Omaha, Ne in 1940. All of the Caniglia cousins lived in Little Italy within a few blocks of each other.

This photo captures the Cangilia house, childhood home of Joe Caniglia and his family, built in the Little Italy neighborhood of Omaha, Nebraska. The home was built by the famous architect Thomas Rogers Kimball, who also built St. Cecelia's…

This is a publicity shot for The Clovers, a popular jazz band who played the Dreamland Ballroom in 1954. Native Omahan, Preston Love, Sr.'s band played backup for The Clovers at the dance that night. For interviews and oral histories of this and…

The Daily Graphic: An Illustrated Evening Newspaper. This paper was published Friday August 25, 1876. This particular publication includes articles and corresponding illustrations to events such as Trial of the "Molly Maguire Murders" at Pottsville,…

This is a photo of the Jazz band, The Dixie Ramblers. The jazz scene in Omaha was vibrant from the 1920s through the 1960s. The Omaha Night Owls are sometimes credited as the first jazz band in the city. In 1923, musician and band-leader, Frank…

A genealogy of the Mutzbauer family.

This is the Frerichs family genealogy compiled in 1991, showing the history of the family from Herman Meinard Frerichs who emigrated from Etzel in the Kingdom of Hannover with his parents in 1857, when he was just seven years old. The tree shows the…