Front of card: six people outside posed as family group. Back “Dear Clara — We all wish you a happy birthday and health and every good thing in the new year of your life. I’m going to try and clean...
a Woman in Front of a Wood Plank House in the Buxton-Hamilton area of Iowa. The postage date is stamped “Hamilton Iowa,” and the postcard is addressed to Nebraska. The front of the postcard has an embossed stamp “Flanders, Buxton...
many beautiful baby contests were related to eugenics. They contests were often held at state fairs. The band in the photo is posing at a pavilion with signs advertising “Prize Baby Contest.” The caption under the photo says “470. Calmar...
Front photo shows rural dirt road, two Black children on opposities of the road, and a white building over which is hand- written “Post Office.” At the bottom of the phot, in white, it says “P.O. Looking East, Buxton, IA.”...
Photo shows a group of students, mostly White, two Black students, outside their school by a shrub. Handwriting on front: “Our little school taken around the school flower bed in the fall.” Back has long message. Sent to “Master Harold...
Postcard is postmarked in Cedar Rapics and sentto Sweden. Postcard message written in Swedish. The writing is not on the back, it is also around the image on the front in the margin. Photograph is of a line of men,...
PHOTO SHOWS THE 1919 CHAMPION BASKETBALL TEAM. SOLDIERS FROM THE 357th INFANTRY/90th DIVISION ARMY LEAGUE IN FRANCE —RIGHT ON THE BORDER WITH NAZI GERMANY WRITTEN ON THE BASKETBALL ARE THE CHAMPIONSHIP SPECIFICS. ON THE REVERSE OF THE PICTURE, GRANDPA HAS...
Black troops included in a parade in Waterloo Iowa
Image of the “sewer Banquet” in Waterloo, Iowa held in October 1903. Postcard is postmarked December 8, 1910, and was sent to “Miss Thresia Hoffman Lamotte” in Jackson County, Iowa. “So unique was this banquet in a sewer (no rats...
E.E. Neal, Keota, Iowa postcard of a boy feeding chickens near a barn.Mailed to West Liberty Iowa.
Looking southwest at the Administration Building, built in Romanesque, Gothic Revival. The institution was established in 1872. It is Iowa’s largest prison. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Back: blank, undivided {a second similar postcard has been addressed...
Photo shows a number of people are posing, some with participating young children, for the Baby Health Contest. Many such contests were eugenics related. Names of people in the postcard are identified on the back and this leads to the...
The photo shows a group of mine buildings. A caption in red in the upper left says “Galleyville Mine” Back: unmarked, divided “The Galleyville mine was located just south of Centerville, where Drake Avenue meets the Numa Highway, on the...
Photo shows the football team in practice position. Back: Postcard has brief message from “Bates” and is addressed to “Mr. Harold (Pape) Shindan, New Sharon, Iowa” and is postmarked “Iowa City”. At the bottom someone has handwritten in pencil, “Nov...
Postcard photo shows a group of men posing in front of the Des Moines Daily News and Jones Bros Buildings. In the back, left is a tent that says “Theatre.” Back: the back is blank, and divided.
Photo postcard, front image shows five boys, three White, two Black on a railroad track, all laughing as the two Black youths take boxing stances. Written on fron in white is “Sporting Life Colfax, Iowa -25-” Back, in handwritting: “Have...
Photo shows two horse kicking up a lot of dust while racing on a dirt road in Millersburg, Iowa. A jalopy is parked by the roadside. Back: An extensive message sent form Millersburg, Iowa to “Harry E. Calvert, Metmore, Kans.”
This photo postcard is titled “Kangaroo Court, Bellevue, Iowa” at the bottom of the image. Photo shows an animated crowd of men on a wooden sidewalk, participating in an event and several young boys watch them and a young Black...
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