Daniel Nelson Barn, Glendale Road. This photo was taken for the Heritage Documentation Programs, a division of the National Parks Services. The Heritage Documentation Programs is responsible for administering the Historic American Buildings Survey,…
Elliott Warren Rice was born on November 16, 1835, in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. The younger brother of General Samuel Allen Rice, who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Jenkin's Ferry in April, 1864, E.W. Rice served in the conflict during…
This is a photgraph taken of Colonel James F. McNeill of Oskaloosa, Iowa, in 1906. Colonel McNeill served on an elite team of men that was put to the task of guarding the body/tomb of President Abraham Lincoln after an attempt of stealing his…
This is an image depicting the members of the Iowa Brigade Band in 1896. The band was led by the legendary bandmaster and composer C.L. Barnhouse, who is pictured in the center of this display. The band was very popular among the people of…
Pictured here is the Penn College basketball team from the 1920's. Basketball was invented by Dr. James Naismith in December of 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts. It did not take long for the sport to catch on and spread west across the United…
This is an image taken of students in the Oskaloosa High School library around 1940. By the traditional standards of the early 21st Century, libraries in the early 20th Century were very small and had little room, giving reason to the notion of…
This is an image of a windmill/windpump in the middle of a corn field in Oskaloosa, Iowa, circa 1930. The windpump was designed by Daniel Halladay in 1854 in order to transfer water from farm wells to cattle. At its high point, 600,000 windpumps…
This was a photograph taken around 1940 of the Oskaloosa town square along with the many businesses that encompass it at nighttime in the winter. Note the blanket of snow that covers the ground allowing the lights to illuminate the entire scene with…
Fashion is an ever-evolving concept that makes others ponder over why people wore certain clothes or adopted a certain clothing style during a particular time era, especially in the United States. This image depicts the style worn by women in the…
This image depicts one of the earliest banks formed in Mahaska County; the First National Bank. The bank was situated in downtown Oskaloosa on Market Street.
