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Ak_Sar_Ben_Bridge_04_05_1968.jpg
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…

Bertrand_8_18_1969_14.jpg
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.tif
Omni Center - South 4th Street and Broadway

Malls O465.tif
Photograph of the exterior of the Omni Center, Council Bluffs.

AAU_Women's_Basketball_021.jpg
Pat Landis of Omaha ... has been affiliated with women's basketball for more than 20 years.--Nonpareil Photo.

Omaha O434d.tif
Photograph of the city of Omaha, Nebraska taken from south 11th street.

Hammond_Robert_01_07_1963_004.jpg
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

Hammond_Robert_01_07_1963_003.jpg
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.

Post Office O434.tif
Photograph of the Omaha (Nebraska) Post Office taken on August 30, 1899.

1-Simons Print - Omaha Indian Village.tif
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

Fires O484a.tif
Eight photographs of Omaha's Cable Power house after a fire. January 1899.

Omaha O434a (4).tif
12 photographs showing various airplanes and airplane hangars. Includes airplanes of Omaha Airways, Inc. and the Omaha Legion Airport.

Fonda_Henry_02_23_1962_001.jpg
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.

Council_Bluffs_Public_Library_File_#2_01_31_1980_01.jpg
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…

Council_Bluffs_Public_Library_File_#2_01_31_1980_04.jpg
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.

Council_Bluffs_Public_Library_File_#2_01_31_1980_03.jpg
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…

Ridgecrest_Baptist_Church_10_22_1960_03.jpg
Redwood Paneling...is being installed to the outside walls of Ridgecrest Baptist Church, 1600 High St. Men caught on the job by the photographer were Sidney Swanson, Paul Il Ginn, Mickey Ray, and upon the scaffold, the Rev. H. E. Warren.

MX-3115N_20200807_074003.pdf
Burial details and map for the Kinsman section of the Fairview Cemetery. Researched by Roy D. Linn - Graves Officer, William Kinsman Camp #23 - Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.
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