This project is on the Metropolitan Community College Campus. It can be seen from the South Omaha Library and the bridge going from the library to the campus. It presents numerous scenes of South Omaha, buildings and immigrants. It incudes the scene of the Greek Town Riot, in which the Greeks were forced out of their homes. South Omaha was made on the stockyards and the merat packing industry.
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| Earth lodge of the Umonhon (Omaha), Meat packing and waves of immigrants |
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| John Creighton, Herman Kountz, William Paxton, Doris Wellman from meat packing, selling |
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| waves of immigrants |
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| Street car ran on 24th, aka Main Street, above the street car are packing houses |
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| Everet Buckingham, Rowena Moore, Sam Greenburg |
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| Greek Town riot, homes destroyed and burned |
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| South Omaha homes |
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| tree of life and Miguel Keith, Ed Babe Gomez, war heroes |
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| local businesses |
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| Jose Ramirez, Delores Wright |
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| Sam Greenberg opened Phillip's Department Store in 1916 |
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| stockyard holding pens |
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| chief movie theater on 24th |
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| Stockyard Building |
Cultural dancers and musicians Hispanic, Polish accordion, Irish dancers
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