Time Frame | Artifact Type | Title | Description |
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1924 | Photo | Cars Stuck in Muddy Road, 1924 | Before hard-surfaced roads existed, cars easily became stuck in muddy rural roads. The 1924 edition of the "Official Road Guide to the Lincoln Highway" warned, "It is a folly to try to drive on Iowa dirt roads, during or immediately after a heavy rain. |
ca. 1920 | Photo | Car Stuck in Dirt Roads | Abandoned car stuck in the mud of an Iowa road. Before hard-surfaced roads, Iowa's dirt roads became a sticky, muddy quagmire. |
1920 | Photo | Car in Muddy Road Rut, ca. 1920 | Car stuck in muddy road. Before good roads, people living in the country mostly walked or used a horse and buggy. Cars did not always start and many roads were too bad for cars anyway. ca. 1920. |
1880 | Photo | Capitol Under Construction, 1880 | This picture was taken from southeast of the new capitol under construction in Des Moines. September 1880. |
1939 | Photo | Canned goods preserve food | A woman with some of the 500 quarts of canned goods she 'put up.' Black Hawk County, Iowa. November 1939. |
1900-1920 | Video | Buxton: Racial harmony in an Iowa coal mining town | Buxton was a mining town in southern Iowa. It was unusual because 70-90 percent of the residents of the town were African American. |
1880 | Photo | Building the Dome of the Capitol, 1880 | An 1880 view of the construction of the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines. This view is from the east side of the building and includes neighboring houses. |
1910 | Photo | Boys on Horses in Warren County, 1910 | Boys on horses in barnyard. Warren County, Iowa. September 6, 1910. |
1930s | Video | Boys of the CCC | The work of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the federal works program during the Great Depression of the 1930s that beautified many of Iowa’s state parks, is featured. This aired in 2003. |
ca. 1940 | Photo | Boy's Farm Chores | Boys and girls helped with work on Iowa farms. This boy leads a team of horses used to pull farm machinery. |