– Our Iowa Heritage: An Introduction. We might suggest you start here! Here’s how & why I got started collecting stamps, coins, and other Iowa memorabilia.
+ Iowa – This Is The Place.
+ Ancient Iowa – Exploring The Land.
+ Meskwaki People – True Native Iowans.
+ Preserving The Meskwaki Language of Iowa.
– Honoring The Ioway Tribe Of Johnson County.
– Our Indigenous Land Acknowledgment.
+ Iowa – The Discovery 1673-1803.
– Black Hawk Of Saukenuk.
– The Bollers of Bad Boll – In The Beginning.
+ The Louisiana Purchase 1803-1806.
+ Dubuque & The West 1788-1838.
+ Zebulon Pike & His Dam’d Rascals.
– Ohio’s Robert Lucas – Life Before Iowa.
– George F. Boller & Elizabeth Zook.
+ Chief Poweshiek – The Roused Brown Bear.
+ The Story of Napoleon, Iowa – 1832-1839.
+ Stephen Sumner Phelps – The Original Iowa Hawkeye.
+ The Book That Gave Iowa Its Name.
+ Albert Lea’s 1835 Map of Iowa.
– The Naming Of Iowa – Antoine Le Claire Or Albert Lea?
+ Will The Real John Gilbert – Please Stand Up?
+ 1820’s/1830’s – Phelps vs. Gilbert.
+ Alexander Levi – Dubuque’s Man Of Firsts.
+ John Plumbe, Jr. – Engineering a Railroad to the Moon.
– C.H. Booth – The Grand Old Man Of Dubuque.
+ G.D. & Mary Dillon – Iowa’s Banking Pioneers.
+ Burlington – Iowa’s First Capital City 1837-1840.
+ Burlington & The Hawkeye State.
– J.B. Newhall – Iowa’s First Rock Star.
+ Charles T. Mason – Here Comes The Judge.
+ Oliver Cock – Burlington’s Pioneer Mason.
+ A Burlington Hawkeye Keepsake.
+ Courting Johnson County.
+ The Johnson County Business Meeting That Changed Iowa History.
+ The U.S. Post Office Comes To Johnson County.
+ Iowa Territory 1838-1846.
+ Welcome To Iowa, Governor Lucas.
– Laurel Summers – The Man Who Saved Iowa City.
+ Philip Clark – Johnson County’s Irish Settler.
+ The Midnight Ride Of Philip Clark.
+ Iowa City’s Humble Beginnings.
+ Chauncey Swan – The Father Of Iowa City.
+ Surveying the Life of Cyrus Sanders – Iowa City Pioneer.
+ Cyrus Sanders – My 1839 Iowa Adventure.
– Let The City-Wide Celebration Begin: 1839.
+ Lyman Dillon – Plowing The Straight & Narrow.
+ On The Road To Iowa City.
– 1839 – The Twenty-Four Streets Of Iowa City.
– 1839-1842 – Iowa City’s First Hotels.
– Iowa City’s Good Doctor – Henry Murray.
+ Sylvanus Johnson – Mr. Red Brick.
+ Clinton Street – Iowa City’s Center Of Commerce.
+ Ahoy, Frederick Irish – The Iowa City Sea Captain.
+ Iowa City’s Rose Hill – Irish’s Woods.
+ John F. Rague – Creator Of A Classic.
+ The Old Capitol Gem That Got Away.
+ Parvin & Aldrich – Making & Collecting Iowa History.
– N.R. Parvin – Like Father, Like Son.
+ Welcome To Salubria, Iowa!
+ Ralph + Wilson + Mason = The Road To Freedom.
+ T. S. Wilson – Dubuque’s Good Neighbor
– Recommending John W. Finley – Dubuque’s Good Doctor.
– 1839 – The Iowa & Missouri Honey War.
– The Iowa Colonel Who Helped Stop The Honey War.
– 1840 – Sketches Of Iowa City – J. B. Newhall.
– 1840 – The Road From Bloomington To Iowa City.
+ Iowa City Stage Ready – 1840-1870.
– 1840’s-1890’s – Iowa City’s Classic Hotels.
+ H. D. Downey – Iowa City Esquire.
– Jesse Williams – Rescuing Iowa’s New Capitol – 1841.
– 1841 – The Sudden Death Of A U.S. President.
+ Steamboat’s A-Comin’ – Maybe?
– Let The City-Wide Celebration Begin: 1841.
+ Iowa Newspapers – The Early Years.
+ The Iowa City Newspaper Wars.
+ Walter Butler – A True Servant’s Heart.
– Oliver Weld – Keosauqua’s Young Representative.
– January 1842 – A Letter From The Fourth Assembly.
– Scott County’s Representative – James Grant.
+ When Old Capitol Was The New Capitol: 1841-1857.
+ Gilman Folsom – Crossing The Iowa River.
+ Letters To Gilman Folsom – Iowa City Pioneer.
+ Walter Terrell & His Waterworks.
– Rev. W.W. Woods – Bringing The Gospel To Iowa City.
– 1843 – A Letter To The Major Of Monongahela Valley.
– Iowa City – April 1843 – The Letter Back Home.
+ 1844 – The Drive To Statehood.
– 1844 – The Great Lee County Road Debate.
– Dear Iowa City – Build Us A Road!
+ The Bells Of Iowa City.
– A.H. Palmer – Iowa City’s Old Growler.
– Iowa City’s Old Growler – Part Two.
– Curtis Bates – The Christmas Day Letter From Iowa City.
+ Judge Williams & Legal Troubles In Bloomington.
– 1846 – A Glimpse Of Iowa City – J. B. Newhall.
– April 1846 – The First Step Toward Statehood.
– 1846 – Iowa Elects A State Governor.
– Ansel Briggs – The Stagecoach Driver Who Became Governor.
+ 1846 Iowa Statehood – A Field Of Dreams.
– Johnson County’s Own – Washington Township.
– Senator James B. Harlan – His Iowa City Years.
+ February 25, 1847 – SUI Begins With A Bang.
+ SUI – The Early Days 1847-1860.
– A Letter From The 1st State Legislative Session – Iowa City.
– 1848 – Iowa City’s Hum-Dinger of A Bell Story.
– An Evening At The Movies – St. Louis – 1849.
– Dear Iowa City – Show Me The Money.
– Iowa’s Secretary Of State & Official Stone Finder.
– 1849 – Iowa Dollars To Doughnuts.
– Old Capitol’s Stairway To Heaven.
– 1849 – H.H. Winchester – Iowa Travel Guide.
– 1849 – Iowans Want The Transcontinental Railroad!
– The 1850’s – The Birth Of Iowa Railroads.
– 1850’s – Surveying This New Land Called Iowa.
– 1850’s – Meet Some New Iowa City Friends.
– Fales To Mason – Iowa City To Burlington – 1850.
– Folsom’s Fury – Building A Bridge Over Troubled Water.
– Jacob B. Boller & Catharine Smucker.
– The Boller Farms of Johnson County, Iowa – 1853.
– Tracking Down Iowa City’s Boyd Wilkinson.
– 1852 – The Red Rock Wild West Murder Mystery.
– 1853 – The $50,000 Investment In Iowa City’s Future.
– Louis Englert – Iowa City’s Bavarian Beer Man.
– 1853 – Opening Doors For The Visually Impaired.
– Gov. James W. Grimes – The ‘Wide Awake’ Father Of Republicanism.
– The Letters Of Governor James W. Grimes.
– 1853 – Grimes To Mason – Farmer To Farmer.
– Iowa City – Coast To Coast.
– George H. Yewell – Iowa City’s Pioneer Artist.
– Iowa City – Through The Eyes Of George Yewell.
– Isaac A. Wetherby – One Artist With Many Dreams.
– Iowa City – Through The Eyes Of Isaac Wetherby.
– Celebrating The Iowa State Fair.
– The Wide Awake Abolitionist & Keeper Of The Fair.
– 1850’s – The Rise & Fall Of Iowa’s First Two Senators.
– 1855-1860 – Everything’s ‘Normal’ In Iowa City.
– D.F. Wells – It Is Well With SUI.
– Iowa City’s Banking Corner.
– Josias & Christiana Ritter – Iowa City Church Planters.
– Johann F. Doescher – Breaking Down Walls That Divide.
– Heinrich Wehrs – Iowa City’s Frontier Pastor.
– William Penn Clarke – Iowa City’s Abolitionist.
– George D. Woodin & The Lane Trail.
– 1856 – Go West, Young Doctor, Go West.
– Iowa City – Here Comes The Railroad!
– Let The City-Wide Celebration Begin: 1856.
– 1856 – Bridging The Father Of Waters.
– The Rock Island Iowa City Depot.
+ Riding The Five Rails Of Iowa City.
– Johnson County’s Own – Amish, Iowa.
– Samuel D. Guengerich – Amish’s School Master.
– 1857 – A Capitol Moving Day.
– The Great Iowa City Tornado Of 1859.
– The 1860’s In Iowa City.
– 1860 – Let’s Visit The State Fair!
– The Bridges Of Iowa City.
– Samuel J. Kirkwood – Iowa’s Civil War Governor.
– Iowa & The Underground Railroad.
– Iowa & The Civil War – 1861-1865.
– 1862 – Seeking Iowa Civil War Promotions.
– 1863 – A Proclamation Of Thanksgiving Across America.
– Meet Four Iowa City Civil War Veterans.
– Mattie & Me – Iowa City’s A.B. Cree.
– The Great American Postage Stamp Exchange Of 1861.
– Iowa City’s Civil War Postmaster – J.R. Hartsock.
– Major Ira J. Alder – The Hundred-Day Civil War Veteran.
– Henry County’s Newspaperman, Statesman & Civil War Hero.
– Gustavus D. Hinrichs – SUI’s Own Dr. Derecho.
– A Rocky Mountain Mayor With Strong Iowa Roots.
– All Aboard Iowa RPO’s.
– St. Agatha’s Of Iowa City – Breaking The Glass Ceiling.
– Clark + Clark + Cole = Equality In Education.
– The 1870’s In Iowa City.
– The Hospitals Of Iowa City.
– SUI’s Wise Choice – Picking Dr. Peck.
– 1870 – Meet Iowa City’s Shrader Family.
– When The Circus Came To Iowa City.
– The Great Iowa City Circus Poster Mystery.
– Coger + Beck + Miller = Liberty & Justice For All.
– Boerner & Sons – Iowa City’s Prussian Poppa Of Pharmacy.
– Meet Rose – Old Capitol’s 1876 Grand Steinway.
– Johnson County’s Own – The Wandering Doc Comes Home To Solon.
– Kalona – Iowa’s Bulltown.
– The 1880’s In Iowa City.
– H.S. Fairall – Iowa City’s Newspaper Man Of The 1880’s.
+ Cyrus Sanders – Setting Johnson County History Straight.
– Iowa City’s Commercial Colleges – Taking Care Of Business.
– Iowa City – The Hub For Holsteins.
– Iowa City Breweries – The Beers That Made Milwaukee Jealous.
– Iowa City Breweries – 1880’s: In Heaven There Is No Beer.
– The Baileys & The Montgomery Ward Wish Book.
– The Wonderful World Of SUI Colors – Black & Golden.
– Tipton’s Farm Boy – Judge Emlin McClain.
– Two Ohio Friends – One SUI Law Library Letter.
– Charles B. Elliott: Romancing the Forest City Meteorite.
– The 1890’s In Iowa City.
– The Streets Of Iowa City – From Mud To Bricks.
– Iowa City’s Photographic James Family.
– George Washington Carver – Iowa’s Mr. Peanut.
– Frank “Kinney” Holbrook – Tipton’s Iron Man.
+ Meet The Good People Of Block 98.
– C.C. Nutting – Hidden Gem Of The Great SUI Triumvirate.
– H.F. Wickham – SUI’s Bug Man.
– Dr. Otto Kuntze & His Iowa Mineral Office.
– Welcome To East Iowa City & Rundell.
– Daniel J. Boller & Barbara Miller.
– Boller Furniture Company – Wayland’s Finest For 45 Years – Generation One.
– The Boller Children & Johnson County Schools.
– Let’s Meet Some More Bollers.
– SUI Red Brick Campus –The Golden Age Of The State University of Iowa.
– Old Capitol – The Icon Of SUI.
– Mechanics Academy: The Cradle Of SUI.
– South Hall: SUI’s Ten-Chimneyed One.
– North Hall: The Grandfather Of SUI.
– Medical Building: SUI’s Ill-Fated Medical Experiment.
– Science Hall: SUI’s Only Mobile Home.
– My Calvin Hall Story.
– Hall Of Pharmacy & Chemistry: SUI’s Controversial Park Place.
– Close Hall: SUI’s Home For Jesus, Jumpshots & Journalism.
– Observatory #2: SUI’s Eye To The Sky.
– Dental Building: SUI’s Eye Tooth For 80 Years.
– Homeopathic Medical Building #2: SUI’s 2nd Medical Opinion.
– Unity Hall: SUI’s Gathering Place.
– The Forgotten Four: SUI’s Little Engines That Could.
– The Forgotten Four – One Big Contribution To SUI.
– Iowa City At The Turn-Of-The-Century.
– Penny Postcards – Old Capitol & Iowa Avenue.
– Penny Postcards – The Center Of Iowa City.
– Penny Postcards – Iowa City North.
– Penny Postcards – Iowa City South.
– The “Miss Tillie” Penny Postcard Collection.
– An Iowa City Turn-Of-The-Century Christmas.
– The Wieneke Family – Iowa City’s Penny Postcard People.
– From University Square To The Pentacrest.
+ 1901 – Opening Johnson County’s New Court House.
– 40 Turn-Of-The-Century Leaders Who Shaped Iowa City.
– Hannah Elizabeth Irish – Iowa City’s Business Entrepreneur.
– Iowa City’s ‘Look For The Label’ Department Store.
– Economy Advertising – Birthplace Of The Midland & More.
– As The Dunkel World Turns.
– 1908 – Oakdale Hall – Iowa’s Answer To The White Plague.
+ Klondike Bill & Friends Visit Iowa City.
– Let’s Go To City Park!
– Let’s Go To City Park! (Part II)
– Captain Tom, Iowa City & The Red Devil Airship.
– The Iowa City Airport – A Rich Aviation History.
– Iowa Celebrates The Roaring 1920’s.
– Iowa City & EKKO Radio Stamps.
– Dixie C. Gebhardt – Iowa’s Own Betsy Ross.
– Carrie C. Catt – Iowa’s Champion for Women’s Rights.
– Fred W. Kent – Continuing The Photographic Tradition.
– Fred W. Kent’s Iowa City Classics.
– Wetherby & Kent – Two Generations – Two Cameras – One City.
– The Hawkeyes Take The Field.
– SUI Mascots – The Big Three.
– Iowa Homecoming: Hawkeye-Style.
– Henry County To Iowa City – The Red Ball Route.
– Karl L. King – Iowa’s March King.
– Duke Slater – Iowa’s All-American Trailblazer.
– Johnson County’s New Namesake – What a Lulu!
– Waldo E. Boller & Olive A. Hulme.
– Boller Furniture Company – Wayland’s Finest For 45 Years – Generation Two.
– The Daily Iowan – The Newspaper For Hawkeyes.
– Political Cartooning – A Rich Iowa Tradition.
– Thomas Nast – The Father of Political Cartooning.
– Ding Darling & Herbert Hoover – Two Iowa Friends.
– An American President – Herbert Hoover.
– Boyhood Days In Iowa – Herbert Hoover.
– U.S. Post Office Brings Their ‘Stamp Show’ To Iowa.
– Ozzie Simmons + Racial Targeting = Floyd of Rosedale.
– Remembering Helen Lemme – Grinnell’s Golden Girl.
– Harriet P. Macy – Iowa’s Own Teaching Artist.
– Grant Wood – Iowa’s Iconic Artist.
– Mildred W. Pelzer – An Iowa City Artist.
– The Mildred Pelzer Iowa City Murals.
– Roosevelt’s New Deal – The WPA & Iowa City.
– 1938 – Iowa Celebrates Our Territorial Centennial.
– Iowa City 1839-1939 Centennial.
– The Press-Citizen Celebrates Iowa City’s Centennial.
– The Old Stone Capitol Remembers – Benjamin F. Shambaugh.
– Nile Kinnick – Iowa’s Heisman Winner.
– Iowa PBS – Kinnick: The Documentary.
– U.S.S. Iowa – The Navy’s Finest.
– 1942 – War Rationing Hits Iowa City.
+ Five ‘Greetings From Iowa’ Postcards – One Corny Artist.
– George E. Boller & Dixie L. Boyer.
– 1946 – Iowa Celebrates 100 Years Of Statehood.
– 1947 – The SUI Centennial Celebration.
– William J. Petersen – Iowa’s Steamboat Bill.
– Iowa Celebrates: The 1950’s.
– Mapping Out My Iowa – 1951.
– Growing Up In Mt. Pleasant – Old Threshers.
– The Iowa Award – 1951 To Today.
– The 1950’s – Hooray For Evy’s Hawkeyes.
– Iowa’s Own Rocket Man – Dr. James Van Allen.
– A Penny From Heaven – Rev. Fred L. Penny.
– The Day MLK Came To Iowa City.
– Iowa’s Own Music Man – Meredith Willson.
– The Big Show – Meredith Willson’s Big Stage.
– May The Good Lord Bless And Keep You.
– Meredith Willson & The Iowa Hawkeyes.
– PBS-Iowa – The History of the Iowa Fight Song.
– NBC’s Chime Master – Iowa’s Meredith Willson.
– It’s Beginning To Look Like A Meredith Willson Christmas.
– My Meredith Willson – Music Man Story.
– Meredith Willson …And Then I Wrote The Music Man.
– Till There Was Meredith Willson.
– The Music Man On Broadway – 2022.
– Meredith Willson Marches On To Iowa-PBS.
– Meredith Willson – Want To Go Deeper?
– Simon Estes – From Centerville to Center Stage.
+ Our Hawkeye Sing-Along.
– Iowa City’s Bell Keeper – Herb Gartzke.
– SUI or UI – What’s In A Name?
– 1965 – Frank Patton’s SUI Echoes Of Old Gold.
– August 10, 1965 – Hoover Stamp Day.
– Old Stone Capitol Remembers – Abraham, Martin, & John.
– U of I Gathering Places.
– Lolly Parker Egger’s Library Legacy.
– Marching, Musical, High-Stepping Hawkeyes.
– Tom Davis – Our HMB Musical Mom.
– George Boller: A Hawkeye Football Nut.
– The Wonderful World Of SUI Colors – Black & Golden.
– The Hawkeyes Take The Field.
– SUI Mascots – The Big Three.
– Iowa Homecoming: Hawkeye-Style.
– Frank “Kinney” Holbrook – Tipton’s Iron Man.
– Duke Slater – Iowa’s All-American Trailblazer.
– Ozzie Simmons + Racial Targeting = Floyd of Rosedale.
– Nile Kinnick – Iowa’s Heisman Winner.
– Iowa PBS – Kinnick: The Documentary.
– The 1950’s – Hooray For Evy’s Hawkeyes.
+ Our Hawkeye Sing-Along.
– PBS-Iowa – The History of the Iowa Fight Song.
– The Cy-Hawk Game – Iowa’s Super Bowl.
– John Holladay – Hawkeye Artist at Heart.
– Remembering 1985 – Kinnick Stadium’s “Top-Five” Football Match-Up.
– America’s Bicentennial – Restoring Old Capitol.
– America’s Bicentennial – Waving The Flag.
– America’s Bicentennial – The U.S. Post Office.
– Iowa’s Very Own – U.S. Postage Stamps.
– Making Elbow Room For A Pulitzer-Prize Winner.
– Honoring James Alan McPherson.
– Greetings From Iowa – Goldfinches & Wild Roses.
– May 1989 – Iowa City Celebrates 150 Years!
– Irving Weber – Mr. Iowa City.
– Weber’s Winners – Iowa City’s Finest.
– Weber’s Fun Facts – The Old Stone Capitol.
+ W.P. Kinsella – Write It and They Will Come.
+ The Field of Dreams Game.
– Iowa Celebrates Three Sesquicentennials.
+ Hubbard Park – Diversity Down By The Riverside.
– Iowa Millennium Art – The 2000 Poster.
+ 2006 – Iowa City Storm Stories.
+ Bethel AME – 150 Years Of Keeping The Faith In Iowa City.
– The Iowa City Public Library – Celebrating 125 Years.
– On The Road to Statehood – Celebrating 175 Years!
– Iowa Statehood Day – December 28th.
– On Iowa! Go Hawks! – Celebrating 175 Years!
– Three Hundred Years of Iowa Maps.
– The Mapping of Iowa City – 1832 To Today.
+ Johnson County Historical Resources.
– Johnson County Remembrance Markers.
+ Iowa City’s Historic Skyscrapers.
– A Bird’s Eye View Of Iowa City.
– My Iowa Art – The Collection.
– My Iowa Art – The Book Collection.
– Iowa City’s Top 50 Influencers: Part One – 1832-1845.
– Iowa City’s Top 50 Influencers: Part Two – 1846-1939.
– J.B. Newhall – Iowa’s First Rock Star.
+ Parvin & Aldrich – Making & Collecting Iowa History.
– The Old Stone Capitol Remembers – Benjamin F. Shambaugh.
– William J. Petersen – Iowa’s Steamboat Bill.
– Irving Weber – Mr. Iowa City.
+ Bob Hibbs – Iowa City’s Postcard King.
– Marybeth Slonneger – Iowa City’s Artistic Historian.
– 1838 to Today – Unity Through Diversity.
– Rich Stories of Diversity Timeline.
+ Iowa – This Is The Place.
+ Ancient Iowa – Exploring The Land.
+ Meskwaki People – True Native Iowans.
+ Preserving The Meskwaki Language of Iowa.
– Black Hawk Of Saukenuk.
+ Chief Poweshiek – The Roused Brown Bear.
– Honoring The Ioway Tribe Of Johnson County.
– Our Indigenous Land Acknowledgment.
+ The Johnson County Business Meeting That Changed Iowa History.
+ Alexander Levi – Dubuque’s Man Of Firsts.
+ Welcome To Salubria, Iowa!
+ Ralph + Wilson + Mason = The Road To Freedom.
– 1849 – Iowans Want The Transcontinental Railroad!
– 1853 – Opening Doors For The Visually Impaired.
– Gov. James W. Grimes – The ‘Wide Awake’ Father Of Republicanism.
– William Penn Clarke – Iowa City’s Abolitionist.
– George D. Woodin & The Lane Trail.
– The Wide Awake Abolitionist & Keeper Of The Fair.
– 1850’s – The Rise & Fall Of Iowa’s First Two Senators.
– Learning From History – Wide Awake Vs. Woke.
– Iowa & The Underground Railroad.
– Iowa & The Civil War – 1861-1865.
– St. Agatha’s of Iowa City – Breaking The Glass Ceiling.
– Clark + Clark + Cole = Equality in Education.
– Coger + Beck + Miller = Liberty & Justice For All.
– George Washington Carver – Iowa’s Mr. Peanut.
– Frank “Kinney” Holbrook – Tipton’s Iron Man.
– Hannah Elizabeth Irish – Iowa City’s Business Entrepreneur.
+ Meet The Good People Of Block 98.
– Carrie C. Catt – Iowa’s Champion for Women’s Rights.
– Duke Slater – Iowa’s All-American Trailblazer.
– Johnson County’s New Namesake – What a Lulu!
– Ozzie Simmons + Racial Targeting = Floyd of Rosedale.
– Remembering Helen Lemme – Grinnell’s Golden Girl.
– Harriet P. Macy – Iowa’s Own Teaching Artist.
– Simon Estes – From Centerville to Center Stage.
+ Bethel AME – 150 Years Of Keeping The Faith In Iowa City.
+ A Penny From Heaven – Rev. Fred L. Penny.
+ The Day MLK Came To Iowa City.
– Old Stone Capitol Remembers – Abraham, Martin, & John.
– Lolly Parker Egger’s Library Legacy.
– Making Elbow Room For A Pulitzer-Prize Winner.
– Honoring James Alan McPherson.
– Johnson County Remembrance Park.
– Old Capitol – The Icon Of SUI.
+ John F. Rague – Creator Of A Classic.
+ When Old Capitol Was The New Capitol: 1841-1857.
– Old Capitol’s Stairway To Heaven.
– 1857 – A Capitol Moving Day.
– Meet Rose – Old Capitol’s 1876 Grand Steinway.
– Penny Postcards – Old Capitol & Iowa Avenue.
– From University Square To The Pentacrest.
– Old Stone Capitol Remembers – Abraham, Martin, & John.
– America’s Bicentennial – Restoring Old Capitol.
– Weber’s Fun Facts – Old Stone Capitol.
– Iowa City – A July 4th Celebration.
– Inside Old Capitol – Your Guided Tour.
– Moving On Up – The Old Capitol Dome.
– Remembering The Old Stone Capitol.
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