| Time Frame | Artifact Type | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1864(?)-1943 | Photo | George Washington Carver | George Washington Carver 1864(?)-1943. Agricultural chemist Carver discovered over 300 uses for peanuts and many uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes. He attended Simpson College in Indianola and transferred to Iowa State College. He taught there for a brief period. |
| 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. |