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Old volumes need care, books in danger
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…
Old volumes need care, books in danger
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.
Old volumes need care, books in danger
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…
Olivia, Henry Open In Drama
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.
Omaha Airways, Inc. Series
12 photographs showing various airplanes and airplane hangars. Includes airplanes of Omaha Airways, Inc. and the Omaha Legion Airport.
Omaha Cable Power House
Eight photographs of Omaha's Cable Power house after a fire. January 1899.
Omaha Indian Village
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
Omaha Indian Village on Pappillion Creek near Belleview Nebraska
Omaha Post Office
Photograph of the Omaha (Nebraska) Post Office taken on August 30, 1899.
Omaha Taxicab Driver Shot In Head, Robbed, Run Over - A Bullet Also Grazes Carson Man
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.
Omaha Taxicab Driver Shot In Head, Robbed, Run Over - A Bullet Also Grazes Carson Man
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
Omaha, Nebraska 1866
Photograph of the city of Omaha, Nebraska taken from south 11th street.
Omahan Coordinates Women's Basketball
Pat Landis of Omaha ... has been affiliated with women's basketball for more than 20 years.--Nonpareil Photo.
Omni Center
Photograph of the exterior of the Omni Center, Council Bluffs.
Omni Center
Omni Center - South 4th Street and Broadway
On Display
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.
On international scholarship French girl will attend classes at A.L. next year
Miss Monique Cuggia
One bolt at a time
For a cutting torch man, working your way to Omaha from Council Bluffs is a slow one-bold-at-a-time pace. As the Ak-Sar-Ben Bridge is chopped up for scrap, traffic continues to roar across the shiny new I-480 bridge to the right. Demolition of the…
One hearse carried 4 caskets to Oaklawn Cemetery Sunday
Roses for mother. . . of the four Allen boys buried Sunday in these white caskets are plucked from the sprays at her request by the Rev. Raymond Lott at the cemetery near Oakland. --Nonpareil Photo.
One Hurt In 11-Car Derailment of Train
Fishtail motion...is evident in derailed cars of Overland Limited passenger train. Several hundred feet of train is damaged.