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July 1, 1927 – First Commercial Air Flight Into Iowa City

July 1, 1939 – Press-Citizen Centennial Edition

July 2, 1825 – Catharine Smucker

July 2, 1862 – Lincoln & The Civil War

July 3, 1836 – Dubuque’s C.H. Booth

July 3, 1976 – Old Cap Reopens

July 4, 1839 – Iowa City Celebrates

July 5, 1909 – City Park

July 5, 1952 – Russell & Clara Mae Stover

July 6, 1932 – US Postage Rates

July 6, 2025 – Iowa City Grocery Stores

July 7, 1838 – Gov. Robert Lucas

July 7, 1887 – Pharmacist Emil L. Boerner

July 8, 1869 – Morgan Reno, (2)

July 9, 1901 – Mae Driscoll

July 9, 1918 – Nile Kinnick

July 10, 1853 – The Boller Farm

July 10, 1951 – Martin Jay Boller

July 11, 1862 – Senator James Harlan

July 11, 1919 – Bremer’s Mens Store

July 12, 1841 – St. Mary’s Church

July 12, 1975 – Marty & Sandy Boller

July 13, 1874 – William H. Englert

July 13, 1962 – Henry L. Fisk

July 14, 1840 – Iowa Statehood

July 14, 1894 – Thomas E. Marshall – The Hardware Man

July 15, 1853 – Grimes To Mason – Farmer To Farmer.

July 15. 1856 – Meskwaki Tribe

July 16, 1885 – Iowa City Neversweats

July 16, 1959 – Iowa City A&P Grocery

July 17, 1790 – Elizabeth Zook Boller

July 17, 1839 – Robert R. Hutchinson

July 17, 1855 – Eva Emery Dye

July 18, 1855 – Dubuque Railroad

July 18, 1866 – Mayor George W. McCleary

July 19, 1855 – M&M Railroad, (2)

July 20, 1864 – John P. Irish

July 20, 1934 – Hottest Iowa Day

July 21, 1864 – The First USS Iowa

July 21, 1915 – The Athens of Iowa

July 22, 1839 – Salubria, Iowa

July 22, 1861 – Great American Postage Stamp Exchange

July 23, 1860 – Full-Service Iowa City Tavern

July 23, 2024 – Judge Charles Mason

July 24, 1849 – Judge Curtis Bates

July 24, 1936 – Helmers Hill-Top Tavern

July 25, 1839 – Land For Sale, Iowa City

July 25, 1860 – Sylvester & Tucker’s Printing House

July 26, 1904 – First Movie In Iowa City

July 26, 1942 – CRANDIC Interurban

July 27, 1854 – Iowa City’s H.S. Fairall

July 27, 1943 – U.S. Navy Training School

July 28, 1862 – Railway Post Office begins. (2)

July 29, 1839 – The Honey War

July 29, 1904 – Iowa City’s Emma J. Harvat

July 30, 1840 – Bloomington Road

July 30, 1914 – Iowa’s Great White Way

July 31, 1848 – SUI’s Thomas H. Macbride

July 31, 1932 – Dial Telephones

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

July 27, 2025 – Grant Wood’s Young Corn

July 20, 2025 – Helmers – Hilltop Tavern

July 13, 2025 – Henry L. Fisk

July 6, 2025 – Whiteway Grocery

July 28, 2024 -Iowa City’s Henry Fisk Airport Terminal

July 21, 2024 – The Meskwaki People – The Sauk and Fox Confederation

July 14, 2024 – Iowa City’s Candy Couple – Russell & Clara Stover

July 7, 2024 – Welcome To Iowa, Governor Robert Lucas

July 4, 2024 – Happy July 4th From Iowa City

July 30, 2023 – Welcome to SUI Close Hall

July 23, 2023 – Iowa City in 1942

July 16, 2023 – The Old Settlers’ Association of Johnson County – 1886

July 9, 2023 – The Meskwaki People At The Turn Of The Century

July 2, 2023 – We Build Our Capitol – 1841

July 6, 2025 – 1907 Photograph in the Round – Downtown Iowa City.

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