Browse Items (1267 total)

This video is an account of Gale Pemberton explaining what she brought to the Dannebrog History Harvest.

This collage of articles from the Omaha Star shows pictures for the Gala Family Day in 1955. This collage included winners of the Twelfth Annual Coronation Pageant and the 1955 "Miss Sepia" Pageant.

For interviews and oral histories of this…

Copy of Concetta Monico's funeral program. She immigrated from Italy as a young girl and died in Nebraska at the age of 104.

Program for the Funeral of Henry J. Hamburger

Postcard depicting the view of Kearney from Ft. Kearney Hotel.

This image reveals the front side of the five war medals given to a Vacanti brother during WWII. Four Vacanti brothers served in the war at the same time.

This is a baptismal certificate for Friedrich Schuetz, the fourth child of Bill Dean's second great-grandfather Gottlieb Schuetz. A son of soap manufacturers Hans (John) Schuetz and Magdalena Luthi, Gottlieb was born in 1838 in Canton Berne,…

This is the Frerichs family photograph, with Herman Meinard Frerichs, his wife Rena Bohlken and their elder daughter Elizabeth, born in 1882. Herman Frerichs emigrated from Etzel in the Kingdom of Hannover with his parents in 1857, when he was just…

Omaha was home to a wide range of black fraternal groups. The Elks and Masons were particularly strong in the city during the mid-twentieth century. Fraternal groups provided a social outlet, as well as opportunities for community betterment. …

This photo is of Frank Oddo, an Italian immigrant from Carlentini, Italy. Oddo became a U.S. citizen in 1934 at the age of 23. According to his daughter, Mary, Oddo was "always clowning" as seen in the photo.