An Iowa Album
An Iowa Album

Author: Mary Bennett

Publisher: Bureau Oak Original

Published: 2001-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780877457534

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This work invites the reader to travel through 60 years of Iowa history, between 1860 and 1920, and to view the state in turn-of-the-century glory. Lavish illustrations show harvest times, main streets, children playing, and leisure activities of the time - warmly redolent of a time gone by.

A History of Iowa
A History of Iowa

Author: Leland L. Sage

Publisher: Iowa State Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780813807164

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Paper reprint of the 1974 original.

Iowa
Iowa

Author: Dorothy Schwieder

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Published: 1996-03

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1587295490

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In this engrossing history of the Hawkeye State, Dorothy Schweider reveals a place of fascinating grassroots politics, economic troubles and triumphs, surprising cultural diversity, and unsung natural beauty. Above all, this is the history of the people of Iowa and the lives they have led—the accomplishments of both ordinary and not-so-ordinary Iowans.

Iowa Gardens of the Past
Iowa Gardens of the Past

Author: Beth Cody

Publisher:

Published: 2019-10-28

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781733842105

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There's something about vintage garden photos: preserved moments of beauty from gardens long gone. Iowa Gardens of the Past features 300+ color and grayscale images of beautiful Iowa gardens, together with lovely seed catalog art, from the mid-nineteenth century through 1980. From impressive mansion grounds to humble flower-filled farmsteads, they include: Victorian-style flower bedding; formal rose gardens; exotic Japanese-style gardens; midcentury modern landscaping. Discover how Iowans coped with severe weather events, economic depressions, world wars, grasshopper plagues and Dutch Elm Disease. Despite these challenges, Iowans have made countless gardens of great beauty. Now these gardens can be admired and enjoyed once again, in these hauntingly beautiful images of Iowa Gardens of the Past.

Irish Iowa
Irish Iowa

Author: Timothy Walch

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2019-03-04

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1439666296

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Iowa offered freedom and prosperity to the Irish fleeing famine and poverty. They became the second-largest immigrant group to come to the state, and they acquired influence well beyond their numbers. The first hospitals, schools and asylums in the area were established by Irish nuns. Irish laborers laid the tracks and ran the trains that transported crops to market. Kate Shelley became a national heroine when she saved a passenger train from plunging off a bridge. The Sullivan family became the symbol of sacrifice when they lost their five sons in World War II. Author Timothy Walch details these stories and more on the history and influence of the Irish in the Heartland.