Remembering Omaha

by Jeffrey Spencer (Contributor)

From its beginnings as a frontier military post on the Missouri River, through its years as a transportation and meatpacking center, to its present role as a home to Fortune 500 companies, Omaha has always been a city of opportunity, growth, and change. With a selection of fine historic images from his best-selling book Historic Photos of Omaha, Jeffrey Spencer provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of Omaha. Remembering Omaha captures this journey through still photography selected from the finest archives. From the muddy streets of a cattle town to the bustling thoroughfares of a modern metropolis, these images tell a story of transportation and commerce, of churches and schools, of wars and disasters. With more than a hundred historic photographs reproduced in vivid black-and-white, Remembering Omaha captures the momentous events and everyday life of two centuries of Americans building a unique and vibrant city.

144 pages, Paperback

First published May 31, 2010

About the author

University of Nebraska at Kearney journalism graduate Kristine Gerber has combined her love of project management, people, history and photography into a career. While at the Omaha World-Herald, Gerber produced seven books highlighting the areas rich history through photographs, postcards and stories from the people who lived it. Books included the three-volume Omaha, Times Remembered series and Greetings from Omaha. In February 2003, Gerber formed Omaha Books, a subsidiary of Eventive Marketing LLC, to help Midwest organizations with their publishing needs. To date she has helped produce 10 books including Building for the Ages, Omahas Architectural Landmarks, Toast to Omaha, A Cookbook by the Junior League of Omaha and Council Bluffs 365 Days, 150 years. Her new book is Omaha-Council Bluffs Yesterday & Today featuring 114 historic mid-century photographs matched with the same image taken in 2008. "