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This is one of the families awarded Family of the Week, a recurring feature in the Omaha Star. The clipping does not include any information about the family in the photo. For interviews and oral histories of this and other items please visit the …

This photograph shows the Frank and Marie (Ledvina) Hladky, Sr. family with their horses on their farm west of Crete Nebraska. Featured in the photo (left to right) are Joe Justa (husband of Mary Hladky) with his son Clarence Just a on horseback,…

This is a photograph of a luncheon that Sonya Jacobsen had for Kamma Villemoes, who came from Denmark, in August of 2009. Sonya's mother's Royal Copenhagen China which has a Musselmalet Pattern and the Hardanger Embroidery Tablecloth, which was made…

The History Harvest was held at Love's Jazz and Art Center on October 22, 2011. A number of North Omaha institutions supported program and helped publicize or otherwise contribute to the program, including the Great Plains Black History Museum, Big…

The Great Plains Black History Museum was in the process of renovating and salvaging items from the building that had fallen into disrepair. New management had moved many of the items into a metal storage container to save them from the elements. The…

Issued to a drover overseeing transportation of cattle from the Omaha market to Axtell, this ticket is one of the rare documents of the turn of the 20th century railroad operations. Unlike a passenger ticket, the drover's ticket featured a list of…

Issued to a drover overseeing transportation of cattle from the Omaha market to Axtell, this ticket is one of the rare documents of the turn of the 20th century railroad operations. Unlike a passenger ticket, the drover's ticket featured a list of…

These trifocal glasses as shown in the photos worn by Palmer Wall were created by Dr. Lewis C. Rathbun of Oelwein, Iowa. Rathbun also made tools for the Chicago Great Western Railroad. This item was contributed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln…

History beginning with Gerald Dale Hamburger coming to American and the preceding family members

These three pages out of a notebook represent everyday records a farmer would have kept to document his interactions with workers, neighbors, and livestock and lumber traders. This particular notebook belonged to Betty Stukenholtz's great…