Time Frame Artifact Type Title Description
late 1860s Photo Horse-drawn Trolley

Horse- and mule-drawn streetcars traveled on iron tracks down city streets in Iowa's larger cities in the late 1860s and early 1900s. This trolley operated in Des Moines.
1804 Video Explorers Search for River Sources

In 1804 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark searched for the source of the Missouri River while Zebulon Pike searched for the source of the Mississippi River.
1975 Video A Big Leap for Iowans

Former US Ambassador to Cambodia Kenneth M. Quinn talks about Iowans welcoming refugees from Southeast Asia in 1975.
2004 Photo Loading Grain Onto Train, 2004

Loading grain onto train. Trains carry many of Iowa's crops to markets. 2004.
1904 Photo Des Moines Fire Wagon, 1904

Des Moines Fire Department fire wagon, Hose #2, 1904.
1929-1933 Video America Wants Change

President Hoover was blamed for many of the problems associated with the Great Depression. At election time voters replaced him with Franklin Roosevelt.
1930s Photo Dust-blown rural road

Cars moving along dustblown rural road during the Dust Bowl. Location unknown. 1933.
1930s Video Isabel Bloom

The late Isabel Bloom, an Iowa artist whose lifetime spent experimenting with materials and techniques resulted in a business that manufactures and sells thousands of reproductions of her sculpture each year, is featured. This program aired in 2003.
1880's Video Dairy Farming Booms in Iowa

The dairy industry boomed in northeastern Iowa in the early 1900s. As a result, butter making grew. With advances in technology, butter from Iowa was shipped to large cities around the country.
1844 Video Iowa Moves Toward Statehood

In 1844 Iowa's territotial assembly decided to elect delegates to the first state constitutional convention.