Time Frame Artifact Type Title Description
1880 Photo The Capitol

An architect's drawing of the future state capitol. ca. 1880.
Early to Mid 1900's Video Winter on the Farm

Winter meant different work for farm families.
1920s Video The Iowa Bystander Newspaper Brings Hope

Elaine Graham Estes, longtime director of the Des Moines Public Library, describes the impact of the African-American newspaper, The Iowa Bystander.
2006 Photo Soldiers' Farewell Ceremony Before Deployment to Iraq

Members of Iowa's 1st Battalion, 133th Infantry, 34th Division at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. This picture was taken on March 16, 2006, during a farewell ceremony before the soldiers were deployed to Iraq for one year.
1856 Video Mesquakies Return to Iowa

Mesquakie Indians bought back some of their Iowa homeland in 1856 and vowed to live in peace with European settlers.
1994 Video Remarkable Refugee

Clementine Msengi, a refugee from Rwanda who survived a war that killed nearly one million people in her country including most of her family, is featured. This program aired in 2005.
2004 Photo Iowa Quarter

The Iowa quarter features a one-room schoolhouse with a teacher and students planting a tree and the inscriptions "Foundation in Education" and "Grant Wood." The design is based on "Arbor Day," a painting by Grant Wood, who was born near Anamosa, Iowa.

The coin was released in 2004.
Photo Plank Road

During the years 1849-1851, the General Assembly authorized nearly 600 miles of plank roadway in the state. However, no more than 50 miles was actually built. The wooden planks were laid as the first attempted solution to overcoming the problem of Iowas muddy roads.
ca. 1940's Video World War II and the Home Front: Helen Castle

Helen Castle was 19 years old when Company E from Shenandoah was called up. She talks about the parade of soldiers marching to the depot. At the front of the parade, the soldiers carried a banner: "Shenandoah is for Co. E Today and Forever."
1950 Photo Threshers at Lunch, 1950

Threshers enjoy a lunch break in Jackson County. Women spent long hours preparing the huge meals when threshers came to help with the farm work. 1950.