{"id":43458,"date":"2013-05-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2013\/05\/29\/photos-sharpen-focus-on-omahas-early-years\/"},"modified":"2013-05-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T05:00:00","slug":"photos-sharpen-focus-on-omahas-early-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2013\/05\/29\/photos-sharpen-focus-on-omahas-early-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos sharpen focus on Omaha&#8217;s early years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>UNMC and The Nebraska Medical Center employees are invited to join Durham Museum curator Carrie Wieners at 6 p.m. on June 11 at the Durham Museum for an evening lecture on &#8220;Omaha, the Early Years: A Photographic History, 1860-1930.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was July 4, 1854, when a group of Council Bluff residents took the Lone Tree Ferry across the Missouri River for a picnic. It was here that the idea of a city was born, the idea that became Omaha. <\/p>\n<p><TABLE border=\"0\" width=\"500\" cellspacing=\"10\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/History0521.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"picture disc.\"><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:0.85em; line-height:150%;\">A street-grading project circa 1891 impacts the New York Life building, Douglas County Courthouse, and the N.B. Falconer Home in Omaha.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<\/TABLE>Usually the story fast-forwards from that picnic in the untamed wilderness to the civilized metropolis of today. But what happened in between? <\/p>\n<p>On June 11, come see some of the early and forgotten history of Omaha. 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