| Time Frame | Artifact Type | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880 | Photo | Capitol Under Construction, 1880 | This picture was taken from southeast of the new capitol under construction in Des Moines. September 1880. |
| 1940 | Photo | Filling seed bags | Worker fills bags at small hybrid seed plant. Marshall County, Iowa. 1940. |
| ca. 1909 | Photo | Sod Home | With few trees available for building houses, many early Iowa settlers made houses from sod. This family poses in front of their "sod shanty." ca. 1909. |
| 2003 | Video | A Survivor’s Story | A Guatemalan native adopted by Iowans tells of life in her war-torn homeland where her parents were massacred and she was left to bury her baby sister. |
| Late 1800's | Video | Lumber Milling in Iowa | As forests in Minnesota and Wisconsin were cut and the logs moved down river, Iowa became a center for milling lumber. Towns in Iowa milled the logs into wood products for homes. The products were shipped all over the country. |
| 1924 | Photo | Farmer on Oliver tractor | Farmer plowing field on Oliver tractor. Oliver and Case were two popular farm implement brands in Iowa. 1924. |
| 1864 | Video | Annie Wittenmeyer Works for Soldiers | During the Civil War, in 1864, Iowan Annie Wittenmeyer created diet kitchens to provide food and rest for wounded soldiers. |
| ca. 1915 | Photo | Early Automobile Sunday Drive | Few inventions have had more impact on 20th century America than the automobile. The first automobiles displayed in Iowa were shown at a fair in Linn County in 1899. |
| 1968 | Video | King Assassination | Former Governor Harold Hughes (1922-1996) describes learning about the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in 1968. |
| 1975 | Video | Iowa Responds | Former Iowa Governor Robert Ray talks about Iowa's response to a plea from the President of the United States asking Americans to help refugees from Southeast Asia in 1975. |