– 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.
+ Iowa – The Discovery 1673-1803.
– The Bollers of Bad Boll – In The Beginning.
+ The Louisiana Purchase 1803-1806.
+ Dubuque & The West 1788-1838.
+ Zebulon Pike & His Dam’d Rascals.
– George F. Boller & Elizabeth Zook.
+ The Book That Gave Iowa Its Name.
+ Albert Lea’s 1835 Map of Iowa.
+ Alexander Levi – Dubuque’s Man Of Firsts.
+ G.D. & Mary Dillon – Iowa’s Banking Pioneers.
+ John Plumbe, Jr. – Engineering a Railroad to the Moon.
+ Burlington – Iowa’s First Capital City 1837-1840.
+ Burlington & The Hawkeye State.
+ Charles T. Mason – Here Comes The Judge.
+ Oliver Cock – Burlington’s Pioneer Mason.
+ A Burlington Hawkeye Keepsake.
+ Chief Poweshiek – The Roused Brown Bear.
+ The Story of Napoleon, Iowa – 1832-1839.
+ Stephen Sumner Phelps – The Original Iowa Hawkeye.
+ Will The Real John Gilbert – Please Stand Up?
+ 1820’s/1830’s – Phelps vs. Gilbert.
+ Courting Johnson County.
+ The Johnson County Business Meeting That Changed Iowa History.
+ The U.S. Postal Service Comes to Johnson County.
+ Iowa Territory 1838-1846.
+ Welcome to Iowa, Governor Lucas.
+ 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.
+ Lyman Dillon – Plowing the Straight & Narrow.
+ On the Road to Iowa City.
+ 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.
+ Welcome To Salubria, Iowa!
+ Ralph + Wilson + Mason = The Road To Freedom.
+ T. S. Wilson – Dubuque’s Good Neighbor.
+ Iowa City Stage Ready – 1840-1870.
+ H. D. Downey – Iowa City Esquire.
+ Iowa Newspapers – The Early Years.
+ The Iowa City Newspaper Wars.
+ Walter Butler – A True Servant’s Heart.
+ 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.
+ Steamboat’s A-Comin’ – Maybe?
– 1844 – The Drive to Statehood.
– The Bells of Iowa City.
– Judge Williams & Legal Troubles in Bloomington.
– 1846 Iowa Statehood – A Field of Dreams.
– February 25, 1847 – SUI Begins With A Bang.
– SUI – The Early Days 1847-1860.
– 1848 – Iowa City’s Hum-Dinger of A Bell Story.
– Dear Iowa City – Show Me the Money.
– An Evening At The Movies – St. Louis – 1849.
– Old Capitol’s Stairway To Heaven.
– 1850’s – Surveying This New Land Called Iowa.
– 1850’s – Meet Some New Iowa City Friends.
– Jacob B. Boller & Catharine Smucker.
– The Boller Farms of Johnson County, Iowa – 1853.
– Tracking Down Iowa City’s Boyd Wilkinson.
– Louis Englert – Iowa City’s Bavarian Beer Man.
– 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.
– 1855-1860 – Everything’s ‘Normal’ in Iowa City.
Josias & Christiana Ritter – Iowa City Church Planters.
Heinrich Wehrs – Frontier Pastor.
Johann F. Doescher – Breaking Down Walls That Divide.
– 1856 – Go West, Young Doctor, Go West.
Iowa City – The Railroad.
The Rock Island Iowa City Depot.
1857 – A Capitol Moving Day.
Samuel J. Kirkwood – Iowa’s Civil War Governor.
The Bridges of Iowa City.
The 1860’s in Iowa City.
Iowa – RPO’s.
Iowa & The Underground Railroad.
St. Agatha’s of Iowa City – Breaking The Glass Ceiling.
Clark + Clark + Cole = Equality in Education.
George D. Woodin & The Lane Trail.
Iowa & The Civil War – 1861-1865.
Major Ira J. Alder – The Hundred-Day Civil War Veteran.
Henry County’s Newspaperman, Statesman & Civil War Hero.
A Rocky Mountain Mayor with Strong Iowa Roots.
The 1870’s in Iowa City.
Iowa City – The Hospitals.
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.
Kalona – Iowa’s Bulltown.
The 1880’s in Iowa City.
+ Cyrus Sanders – Setting Johnson County History Straight.
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.
The 1890’s in Iowa City.
1895 – The SUI Red Brick Campus.
Old Capitol: The Icon of the University
Mechanics Academy: The Cradle of the University
South Hall: The University’s Ten-Chimneyed One
North Hall: The Grandfather of the University
Medical Building: The University’s Ill-Fated Medical Experiment
Science Hall: The University’s Only Mobile Home
My Calvin Hall Story.
Chemistry Laboratory: The University’s Controversial Park Place
Close Hall: The University’s Home for Jesus, Jumpshots and Journalism
Observatory #2: The University’s Eye to the Sky
Dental Building: The University’s Eye Tooth for Eighty Years
Homeopathic Medical Building #2: The University’s Second Medical Opinion
Unity Hall: The University’s Gathering Place
The Forgotten Four: The University’s Little Engines that Could
The Pentacrest – The New University.
Frank “Kinney” Holbrook – Tipton’s Iron Man.
C.C. Nutting.
Two Ohio Friends – One Iowa Connection.
Charles B. Elliott: Romancing the Forest City Meteorite.
Charles B. Elliott: As Seen by The Colonel.
The Wieneke Family – Iowa City’s Penny Postcard People.
Daniel J. Boller & Barbara Miller.
Boller Furniture Company – Wayland’s Finest For 45 Years – Generation One.
The Boller Children & Johnson County Schools.
40 Turn-of-the-Century Leaders Who Shaped Iowa City.
Hannah Elizabeth Irish – Iowa City’s Business Entrepreneur.
Iowa City at the Turn of the Century.
1900 – 1920 Iowa City – Central.
1900 – 1920 Iowa City – North.
1900 – 1920 Iowa City – South.
The “Miss Tillie” Postcard Collection.
Let’s Go To City Park! (Part I)
Let’s Go To City Park! (Part II)
Economy Advertising – Midland Magazine.
SUI’s Little Four Made One Big Contribution To Campus.
Captain Tom, Iowa City & The Red Devil Airship.
Iowa City – The Airport.
+ Klondike Bill & Friends Visit Iowa City.
Carrie C. Catt – Iowa’s Champion for Women’s Rights.
Fred W. Kent – Continuing the Photographic Tradition.
Iowa City – Hawkeyes take the Field.
SUI Mascots – The Big Three.
Iowa Homecoming: Hawkeye-Style.
Henry County To Iowa City – The Red Ball Route.
Iowa Celebrates: The 1920’s.
Karl L. King – Iowa’s March King.
Duke Slater – Iowa’s All-American Trailblazer.
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 and The Rich Iowa Tradition.
Thomas Nast – The Father of Political Cartooning.
Ding Darling & Herbert Hoover – Two Iowa Friends.
Iowa Celebrates: The 1930’s.
Ozzie Simmons + Racial Targeting = Floyd of Rosedale.
Remembering Helen Lemme – Grinnell’s Golden Girl.
Grant Wood – Iowa’s Iconic Artist.
The Murals of Mildred W. Pelzer.
Iowa City 1839-1939 Centennial.
The Old Stone Capitol Remembers – Benjamin F. Shambaugh.
Nile Kinnick – Iowa’s Heisman Winner.
U.S.S. Iowa – The Navy’s Finest.
+ Three ‘Greetings From Iowa’ Postcards – One Corny Artist.
George E. Boller & Dixie L. Boyer.
1946 – Iowa Celebrates 100 Years Of Statehood.
SUI 1847-1947 Centennial.
William J. Petersen – Steamboat Bill.
Iowa Celebrates: The 1950’s.
The Big Show – Meredith Willson’s Big Stage.
Mapping Out My Iowa – 1951.
Growing Up in Mt. Pleasant – Old Threshers.
Iowa’s Own Rocket Man – Dr. James Van Allen.
+ Our Hawkeye Sing-Along.
An Iowa President – Herbert Hoover.
Old Capitol Iconic Moments – 100 Years Apart.
SUI or UI – What’s In A Name?
U of I Gathering Places.
Marching, Musical, High-Stepping Hawkeyes.
Tom Davis – Our Musical Mom.
Iowa Celebrates: The 1970’s-1980’s.
George Boller: A Hawkeye Football Nut.
The Cy-Hawk Game – Iowa’s Super Bowl.
John Holladay – Hawkeye Artist at Heart.
Remembering 1985 – Kinnick Stadium’s “Top-Five” Football Match-Up.
Iowa Celebrates: The Sesquicentennial.
May 1989 – Iowa City Celebrates 150 Years!
Irving Weber – Mr. Iowa City.
Honoring The U.S. Postal Service.
Iowa Celebrates: The 2000’s.
My Iowa Art: The Iowa Millennium Art Poster.
My Iowa Art.
My Iowa Art: The Book Collection.
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.
Iowa’s Very Own: 1846-Present.
The Iowa Award – 1951 to Today.
+ Johnson County Historical Resources.
+ Iowa City’s Historic Skyscrapers.
+ Parvin & Aldrich – Making & Collecting Iowa History.
The Old Stone Capitol Remembers – Benjamin F. Shambaugh.
William J. Petersen – Steamboat Bill.
Irving Weber – Mr. Iowa City.
Weber’s Winners – Iowa City’s Finest.
Weber’s Fun Facts – Old Stone Capitol.
Iowa City’s Bell Keeper – Herb Gartzke.
Marybeth Slonneger – Iowa City’s Artistic Historian.
Rich Stories of Diversity Timeline.
1838 to Today – Unity Through Diversity in Johnson County, Iowa.
+ Meskwaki People – True Native Iowans.
+ Preserving The Meskwaki Language of Iowa.
+ Chief Poweshiek – The Roused Brown Bear.
+ 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.
– The Wide Awake Abolitionist & Keeper Of The Fair.
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.
Carrie C. Catt – Iowa’s Champion for Women’s Rights.
Johnson County’s New Namesake – What a Lulu!
Making Elbow Room for a Pulitzer-Prize Winner.
Honoring James Alan McPherson.
Duke Slater – Iowa’s All-American Trailblazer.
Ozzie Simmons + Racial Targeting = Floyd of Rosedale.
Remembering Helen Lemme – Grinnell’s Golden Girl.
Simon Estes – From Centerville to Center Stage.
Johnson County Remembrance Markers.
Johnson County Remembrance Park.
W.P. Kinsella – Write It and They Will Come.
The Field of Dreams Game.
– Iowa’s Music Man – Meredith Willson.
May The Good Lord Bless And Keep You.
Iowa City – A July 4th Celebration.
Inside Old Capitol.
The Old Capitol Dome.
Old Stone Capitol.
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