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Throwback Thursday: Fountain Beach Swimming Pool

Cool off this #ThrowbackThursday! Dated around 1920-1929, you can see a large white building with a sign reading "Fountain Beach" behind a swimming pool in this 5-1/4" x 3" black and white photograph. The pool contains a diving platform and fountain with water running from it...

Throwback Thursday: "America It's Up to You"

It's an all American #ThrowbackThursday! Dated 1917, "America It's Up to You" is a song written by Alevia Chins and Horace Haws of Omaha, Nebraska. Half the price of the music was donated in support of the Red Cross during World War I. Originally published by Haws & Chins Co...

Throwback Thursday: 16th Street from Harney Street, Omaha

Take a walk on the town this #ThrowbackThursday! This 14 x 9 cm color postcard has a birds-eye view looking north along 16th Street from Harney Street, in Omaha, Nebraska. The large building in the upper left is the New York Life Building at the northeast corner of 17th & Farnam...

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