1976-Bicentennial Iowa City – Section D – Pages 9-12

Click here to go back to the home page: July 1, 1976 – The Bicentennial & Iowa City.

Look for this logo and associated links throughout Our Iowa Heritage website. It will tell you that there’s a story or two, or a Fred Kent photograph taken from this 1976 Press-Citizen Bicentennial edition.
Page D9 (above & below) – focuses on the culmination of the extensive, four-year restoration project of Old Capitol which is being celebrated over the 3-day July 4th weekend, 1976.

You can read more here:
America’s Bicentennial – Restoring Old Capitol.
Page D9 – this article (above) began on Page D8 – click here to go back to that page.
Pages D10 (above) and D11 (below) – This article offers two full pages of pictures as Old Capitol prepares for its re-dedication on July 3, 1976.

You can read more here:
America’s Bicentennial – Restoring Old Capitol.
Click here to go back to the home page: July 1, 1976 – The Bicentennial & Iowa City.

Look for this logo and associated links throughout Our Iowa Heritage website. It will tell you that there’s a story or two, or a Fred Kent photograph taken from this 1976 Press-Citizen Bicentennial edition.

Click here to go on to the next page in this series…

Kudos to the amazing resources below for the many quotes, photographs, etc. used on this page.

Now, it’s just come to life, Mark F. Rohner, Iowa City Press-Citizen, July 1, 1976, p 29

Getting reacquainted, Iowa City Press-Citizen, July 1, 1976, p 30

…with Old Capitol, Iowa City Press-Citizen, July 1, 1976, p 31