Family in Front of Sod Home, ca. 1909
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.
Used with permission of the State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines.
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Few professions were open to women in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Why do you think nursing and teaching were professions open to women?
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