Time Frame | Artifact Type | Title | Description |
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1975 | Video | State of Iowa is One of a Kind | Former president of the Des Moines Register, Michael Gartner, explains the state of Iowa's unique status as a resettlement agency. |
ca. 1940's | Video | World War II Veteran: Vince Connors (Pete) | Pete Conners was called up February, 1941 with Company E along with 112 young men from Shenandoah. Pete was wounded 3 times during World War II 1942-1945 and again in 1950 in Korea. Pete tells us about combat in North Africa and Northern Italy. |
2004 | Video | Modern Machinery Used for Harvest | Combine removes the remains of a harvested crop. |
1959 | Photo | Riverboat Passes Through Dubuque, 1959 | A riverboat passes under the Iowa/Wisconsin Hi Bridge and Dam on the Mississippi River. Dubuque, 1959. |
ca. 1910 | Photo | A man stands in the doorway of a sod home on his farmstead | A man stands in the doorway of a sod home on his farmstead. Due to a lack of trees many settlers to the prairie had little choice but to build homes made of sod until other building materials could be delivered. ca. 1910. |
1948 | Photo | Meatpacking Plant | Two workers in Rath Meatpacking Plant in Waterloo. Undated photo. |
1929-1939 | Video | Public Housing for Miners | Miners living near Granger, Iowa, worked only part of the year. Their families lived in shacks. A priest helped acquire better housing for the miners and their families. |
ca. 1940's | Video | World War II Veteran: Dr. Kenneth James Gee | Dr. Kenneth Gee and a small cadre of people built a 3,000 bed hospital in Batangas, Philippines. They trained medics at Camp Grant who assessed wounded in the field throughout the Philippine islands. Dr. |
1918 | Video | University Dorm Integration | Dr. Philip Hubbard (1921-2002), first African-American professor at the University of Iowa, talks about integrating dorms at the university. He was being interviewed by Robert Morris, whose father was one of the first African-Americans to live in the dorms. |
2005 | Video | New Iowan: Nermina | This is an interview with a young, New Iowan, as part of the documentary "Our Kids." |