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Amana Heritage Society Collection
Contributor: Amana Heritage Society
The Amana Heritage Society is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of the Amana Colonies. This collection is a sample of the many historic and current photographs of people, places, and events relating to the history of the Amana Colonies.
Anamosa... A Reminiscence 1838-1988
Contributor: Anamosa Library and Learning Center
This is an illustrated, personalized history of Anamosa. The editors wrote this book as a tale of how life was like to grow up in Anamosa and the lives of the descendents of those sho settled there.
Ankeny High School Yearbooks
Contributor: Ankeny Area Historical Society
This is a collection of Ankeny High School yearbooks from 1928 to 1980.
Beaman History
Contributor: Beaman Community Memorial Library
This collection contains a notebook of clippings, photographs, booklets, manuscripts, and other materials related to the history of Beaman, Iowa.
Beaman Memorial
Contributor: Beaman Community Memorial Library
This book is "Dedicated to those who served our country," it contains photographs and information about men from Beaman, Iowa who served in the U.S. Armed services from 1936 through 1945.
Bicentennial Reflections-History of the Des Moines Public Schools, 1846-1976
Contributor: Dr. Robert R. Denny, Des Moines Public Schools
This Des Moines Public School history was written on the 200th anniversary of the birth of the United States. It is illustrated with pictures of all the schools and presents in great detail the history of public education in Des Moines including each elementary, junior high and high school that was ever built.
Carnegie Libraries in Iowa Project (CLIP) Collection
Contributor: University of Iowa, School of Library and Information Science
At the beginning of the twentieth century many Iowa communities sought and received funding from the Carnegie Corporation, resulting in the building of 101 public libraries. The Carnegie Libraries in Iowa Project (CLIP), a partnership between the University of Iowa's School of Library and Information Science and Iowa's librarians, is charting changes in Iowa's Carnegie libraries through digital images, documents and statistical data.
Des Moines Illustrated Souvenir
Contributor: State Library of Iowa
This is a pictorial history of Des Moines written in 1895. It contains photographs and descriptions of commercial buildings, public buildings and grounds, important businesses and residences of prominent figures in Des Moines.
Des Moines Public Library Postcard Collection
Contributor: Des Moines Public Library
The Des Moines Public Library Postcard Collection includes postcards depicting scenes from all over the state of Iowa. For this digital collection, we chose to focus on the Des Moines area and specifically on those postcards that had been posted. Our process of digitizing and combining both the front and back side of each unique postcard into single images makes each one more accessible to a larger audience. Each of the personal sender's messages opens a window to the past, an understanding of lives and relationships in the early 1900s.
Des Moines River Valley Plat Maps, 1836-1851
Contributor: State Library of Iowa
The Des Moines River Grant Plat Book is a collection of maps that were created between 1837-1851 and detail the land by county and township of the developing State of Iowa. Details show land ownership, depict the raw land and natural occurrences, and indicate societal movements of that time. The territory surveyed in the Des Moines River Grant Plat Book quantify the land below the forks of the Raccoon and Des Moines Rivers and the maps were sold by the State of Iowa to individuals between the years of 1849-1857. Total amount of land surveyed with this grant equals 267,507.64 acres. This collection includes 105 maps, depicting 16 Iowa counties: Lee, Van Buren, Davis, Jefferson, Wapello, Monroe, Mahaska, Marion, Warren, Jasper, Polk, Dallas, Boone, Hamilton, Webster and Humbolt.