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Two people looking at an ornate tomb.
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Stinard of The Nonpareil's European holiday group view one of the many tombs in Westminster Abbey.

On Display ....in the Iowa Power and Light Co. window are artifacts recovered from the sunkrn riverboat Bertrand. The boat was uncovered in the old Missouri River channel at DeSoto Bend.

Omni Center - South 4th Street and Broadway

Photograph of the exterior of the Omni Center, Council Bluffs.

Pat Landis of Omaha ... has been affiliated with women's basketball for more than 20 years.--Nonpareil Photo.

Photograph of the city of Omaha, Nebraska taken from south 11th street.

Held By Captors . . . at Sigourney Sunday is Robert Kenneth Hammond, 18, with Keokuk County Deputy Sheriff Keith Bryant and Highway Patrolman Donald Woods. -- AP Wirephoto

Cab Driver's Glasses . . . are tagged for evidence and the blood stains examined by Sheriff Roy Wichael, County Attorney Noran Davis and Deputy Sheriff Howard Nelsen. Other items found with the victim's body are in the foreground.

Photograph of the Omaha (Nebraska) Post Office taken on August 30, 1899.

Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

Omaha Indian Village on Pappillion Creek near Belleview Nebraska

Eight photographs of Omaha's Cable Power house after a fire. January 1899.

12 photographs showing various airplanes and airplane hangars. Includes airplanes of Omaha Airways, Inc. and the Omaha Legion Airport.

Actress Olivia de Havilland and actor Henry Fonda are shown in dressing room after Thursday night's opening performance of the drama "A Gift of Time," at Broadway's Barrymore Theater. - AP Wirephotos.

No Trace Of Tracks . . . or street car can be seen in this picture of present-day Mineola. Although taken from a slightly different angle, the photograph does show some of the same buildings that appeared in the older view on page 1.

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Empire Chairs . . . grace the living room of Dr. and Mrs. Maurice Margules, 203 Bluff St. Heavy velvet curtains add to the French decor. The China closet contains several antiques of the First Empire period.

Majestic Built-In…

Retracing the past . . . in library's historical room, staff members and researchers can use references including Gen. Grenville Dodge's personal letters and autobiography. Room's books on early Midwest have been used by scholars, authors. Another…

Looking for space . . . for more old books is adult services librarian Mary Lois Nelson. Library has an undetermined number of old and rare books - including one worth perhaps $1,500 - but no place to display them to public. -Nonpareil by Jim Ebert.

Spanning the range . . . from texts to are are old books at Council Bluffs libray. Among the volumes are a 250-year-old textbook (left), an 1814 treatise on bridge-building (right) and a controversial 1937 book of photographs from Nazi Germany's 1936…
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