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December 1, 1911 – Klondike Bill Visits Iowa City, (2)

December 2, 1899 – Johnson County 4th Courthouse Cornerstone, (2)

December 3, 1863 – Mayor Buttles & Loose Swine

December 3, 1908 – Iowa City’s Ornate Public Fountain

December 4, 1841 – Iowa Capitol Reporter – Iowa City’s 2nd Newspaper

December 4, 1919 – Iowa City’s bootlegger Charles Dingleberry

December 5, 1842 – First Legislative Session in New Capitol Building

December 5, 2024 – Roland Wehner’s Recreation Center

December 6, 1838 – Cyrus Sanders Sets Out For Iowa

December 6, 1939 – Nile Kinnick – The Heisman Trophy

December 7, 1906 – SUI Military Cadet Band Concert

December 7, 1941 – WWII Begins For United States

December 8, 1855 – M&M Railroad West Of West Liberty

December 8, 1911 – Klondike Bill Visits Muscatine

December 9, 1854 – Gov. Grimes’ Anti-Slavery Inaugural Address

December 9, 1910 – Santa Claus Arrives Via The Interurban

December 10, 1846 – Stagecoach Driver Becomes Governor

December 10, 1982 – Iowa City’s Rock Island Railroad Depot

December 11, 1974 – Irving Weber – 60 Years Of Grocery Stores

December 11, 2022 – UI Women’s Basketball Coach Lisa Bluder

December 12, 1837 – Burlington’s First Capitol Building

December 12, 1839 – Col. Patterson & The Honey War

December 13, 1881 – Iowa City Glass Works

December 13, 1909 – Iowa City’s Bijou Dream Theatre

December 14, 1837 – Iowa Territory Petition

December 14, 1853 – Iowa Senator Augustus C. Dodge

December 15, 1797 – French-Canadian Antoine Le Claire

December 15, 1968 – Iowa City’s Helen Lemme

December 16, 1896 – Iowa City’s Tavern Owner Frank McInnerny

December 16, 1913 – Iowa City’s Manhattan Hotel

December 17, 1842 – Ads For Iowa City Hotels

December 17, 1880 – Iowa City Telephone Service

December 18, 1855 – Grand Railroad Festival!

December 18, 1903 – The Boller Children in Johnson County Schools

December 19, 1957 – Music Man Opens On Broadway, (2)

December 20, 1840 – Iowa City’s First Catholic Mass

December 20, 1910 – Iowa City Christmastime Postcard

December 21, 1837 – Johnson County, Iowa Incorporated, (2), (3)

December 22, 1981 – ‘Wild Bill’ Sackter on CBS-TV, (2)

December 23, 1970 – Old Capitol Christmas Card

December 23, 2021 – Prof. Samuel Bacon – School For The Blind

December 24, 1951 – It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

December 24 – Christmas Eve

December 25 – Christmas – 1950’s & 60’s West Music

December 25 – Christmas Day

December 26, 1911 – The Iowa Theatre

December 26, 1983 – Iowa City’s Mae Driscoll

December 27, 1845 – Building Iowa Territorial Roads

December 27, 1864 – Iowa City’s George A. Sueppel

December 28, 1846 – Iowa Statehood Day, (2), (3)

December 29, 1838 – Iowa Territorial Roads, (2)

December 29, 1849 – Iowans Want Transcontinental Railroad

December 30, 1843 – The Iowa City College, (2)

December 30, 1858 – State Bank of Iowa

December 31, 1841 – Oliver Weld – A Letter Back Home

December 31, 1855 – The Railroad Arrives In Iowa City

December 31, 1950 – The Debut of The Iowa Fight Song

Below is a list of our weekly Pictures of the Week – posted in December…

December 28, 2025 – Iowa Statehood Day

December 21, 2025 – Old Capitol Season’s Greetings

December 14, 2025 – The SHSI Building & Bill Peterson

December 7, 2025 – It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

December 29, 2024 – Dixie C. Gebhardt & The Iowa State Flag

December 22, 2024 – An Iowa City Christmas

December 15, 2024 – Iowa City’s A&P Grocery Store

December 8, 2024 – 1936 SUI Fieldhouse Songbook

December 1, 2024 – Iowa Football Top 5 Coaches

December 31, 2023 – 1855 Map of Iowa by Edward Mendenhall

December 24, 2023 – A West Music Christmas Giveaway

December 17, 2023 – SUI & The Iowa Child Welfare Research Station

December 10, 2023 – The Johnson County Poor Farm

December 3, 2023 – Englert Theatre – Washington Street

From 2020 through 2023, we used this Did You Know? (DYK) theme throughout our website. As you browse through our web pages, this little icon will link you to corresponding DYK posts from the past.