North Omaha Business Advertisement Collage

Title

North Omaha Business Advertisement Collage

Description

This collage features a number of advertisements from Black-owned businesses in North Omaha. The collage demonstrates the variety of businesses that thrived in North Omaha in the 1950s. The advertisements include restaurants, bars, realtors, and pharmacies., among others. These advertisements stand in stark contrast to the economic state of the decades that followed.

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Source

Native Omaha Days, North Omaha History Harvest, 2011

Publisher

Omaha Star

Date

1950 circa

Contributor

Native Omaha Days

Rights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Format

document

Language

English

Type

image

Coverage

Omaha (Neb.)

Original Format

newspaper collage

Files

nom_native_omaha_days_0003.jpg

Collection

Citation

“North Omaha Business Advertisement Collage,” History Harvest, accessed October 5, 2024, https://historyharvest.unl.edu/items/show/97.

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