| Time Frame | Artifact Type | Title | Description |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
| Mid to Late 1800's | Video | Steam Train | Travel by steam train in the mid- to late- 1800s was an improvement over stagecoach travel. |