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1. Personal name index to the 1856
$57.95
2. Iowa: The Middle Land
 
$19.82
3. This State of Wonders: The Letters
 
$69.00
4. Looking in Windows: Surprising
$88.87
5. Between Two Rivers: Iowa Year
$29.24
6. Iowa Stereographs: Three-Dimensional
$12.99
7. A Peculiar People: Iowa's Old
$14.95
8. Historic Iowa- A Collection of
 
9. Cass County Iowa. Genealogy, History
$10.48
10. Iowa Pride
 
11.
$35.00
12. From the Loess Hills of Iowa and
 
13. Our Town Eddyville [Iowa] 1840-1990
 
$9.95
14. MAP: Iowa and Eastern Nebraska:
 
15. A Memorial and Biographical Record
 
16. A Memorial and Biographical Record
$64.89
17. Schoolwomen of the Prairies and
$16.36
18. Sunday Afternoon on the Porch:
$7.50
19. Was This Heaven?: A Self-Portrait
 
$109.35
20. An Iowa Album: A Photographic

1. Personal name index to the 1856 city directories of Iowa (Gale genealogy and local history series)
by Elsie L Sopp
 Unknown Binding: 154 Pages (1980)

Isbn: 081031486X
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2. Iowa: The Middle Land
by Dorothy Schwieder
Paperback: 400 Pages (1996-03-30)
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Asin: 0813823064
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This history, which focuses on the economic and social history of Iowa, aims to prove that the location of this heartland state has a significant effect on the identity of its inhabitants. It takes the reader from 17th-century Native American habitation, to the sesqui-centennial in 1996. ... Read more


3. This State of Wonders: The Letters of an Iowa Frontier Family, 1858-1861 (Bur Oak Book)
by John Kent Folmar
 Paperback: 186 Pages (1991-09-01)
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Asin: 0877453411
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When the John Hugh Williams family immigrated to Homer, Iowa, in the1850s, they had six children, ranging in age from five to twenty.Suddenly land poor, in debt, and caught in the Panic of '57, they senttheir eldest son, James, to Georgia to work and add to the familyincome.

The seventy-five letters collected here represent the family'scorrespondence to their absent son and brother. From 1858 to 1861,James' sisters, brothers, mother, and father wrote to him frequently,each with distinct views on their daily life and struggles. While Mr.Williams wrote most often about money, farming, and moral advice (he wasminister in the Church of New Jerusalem, as well as a merchant andfarmer), Mrs. Williams commented on her daily chores, the family'shealth, the ever-important weather, and her leisure activities,including the contemporary journals and books she read, such as David Copperfield and Jane Eyre.James' sisters and brothers wrote about many concerns, from schoolworkand housework to games and family celebrations in nearby Webster City.

As the letters continue, the affection for the absent Jamesbecomes more pronounced. And, as the years go by, the letters touch onmore current national trends, including the Pikes Peak Gold Rush and thegrowing North/South crisis, on which James and his family stronglydisagree. James was never to return to Iowa but married and remained inthe South, becoming a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate army.

Complete with voices both young and old, male and female, This State of Wondersoffers a wealth of information about the daily life of an ordinaryfamily on the Iowa prairie. It is a book to be treasured by all Iowansinterested in the early life of their state and by all historianslooking for a complete portrait of family life on the midwesternfrontier.

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4. Looking in Windows: Surprising Stories of Old Des Moines (Iowa Heritage Collection)
by George Mills
 Paperback: 272 Pages (1995-11-30)
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Asin: 081381572X
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Depicting the unusual going-ons in Iowa's capital city over more than a century, this study includes a variety of sources that showcase the famous, infamous, and even the anonymous - including Ronald Reagan, Billy Sunday, and a barmaid who served beer in a notorious manner. ... Read more

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4-0 out of 5 stars old windows, good stories
Most interesting as I had just come from the Iowa state fair and wanted to know more about the city. Will gift this book to a friend who lives there. Everything was fine with the book. Another great read is the Adventures of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson's work about his childhood in Des Moines, so "Looking in Windows" is a compliment. It's short articles that the author wrote about city history when he was working for the local paper (Register). It contains sometimes amazing Midwest frontier history. Of course many on the coasts deride beautiful Iowa and the Midwest in general while theocratic demagogues falsify and overblow its real or imagined values out of proportion to the reality of those who live there. This book brings it all down to earth. ... Read more


5. Between Two Rivers: Iowa Year by Year, 1846-1996
by Allan Carpenter, Randy Lyon, Carl Provorse
Paperback: 377 Pages (1997-11-30)
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Asin: 0813827353
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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This volume covers 150 years of Iowan history, from the days when there were no roads, to the conquest of the forests and prairies and the laying of towns and modern highways. The individuals whose adventures made the state are at the heart of each tale. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars I.O.W.A. Native looks back
This book was in my parents library, and after their passing I ended up with it.

Like many of us idots out wandering around, I still call Iowa home. Many of the stories that were told to me by my grandparents and parents were written in this book. It gave a good accounting of incidents I had heard about but didn't know about.I also made margin notes of other incidentsthat I knew about but were not recorded, like the year Ike and Mamie visited Boone, and when Kruschev's motorcade came through Luther. I found the book extremely easy to read. I liked the way I could read a couple of pages at a time and still get the whole story. My favorite memory dredged up was the memory of THE MAGIC WINDOW. I would strongly recommend it to anyone who is interested in Iowa history or just grew up in Iowa. It was fun to recall certain things and jot them in the margins. ... Read more


6. Iowa Stereographs: Three-Dimensional Visions of the Past (Bur Oak Book)
by Mary Bennett, Paul C. Juhl
Hardcover: 392 Pages (1997-11-01)
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Asin: 0877456062
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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5-0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive treatment blends history and collection.
The book is very well proportioned for viewing stereographs which are presented full size and intact. Subjects and photographers are well indexed. Very pleased with my copy, an excellent companion to Darrah,Zeller, and Waldsmith. ... Read more


7. A Peculiar People: Iowa's Old Order Amish (Iowa Heritage Collection)
by Elmer Schwieder, Dorothy Schwieder
Paperback: 188 Pages (1987-01-30)
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Asin: 0813801044
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Now back in print with a new essay, this classic of Iowa history focuses on the Old Order Amish Mennonites, the state’s most distinctive religious minority. Sociologist Elmer Schwieder and historian Dorothy Schwieder began their research with the largest group of Old Order Amish in the state, the community near Kalona in Johnson and Washington counties, in April 1970; they extended their studies and friendships in later years to other Old Order settlements as well as the slightly less conservative Beachy Amish.

A Peculiar People explores the origin and growth of the Old Order Amish in Iowa, their religious practices, economic organization, family life, the formation of new communities, and the vital issue of education. Included also are appendixes giving the 1967 “Act Relating to Compulsory School Attendance and Educational Standards”; a sample “Church Organization Financial Agreement,” demonstrating the group’s unusual but advantageous mutual financial system; and the 1632 Dortrecht Confession of Faith, whose eighteen articles cover all the basic religious tenets of the Old Order Amish.

Thomas Morain’s new essay describes external and internal issues for the Iowa Amish from the 1970s to today. The growth of utopian Amish communities across the nation, changes in occupation (although The Amish Directory still lists buggy shop operators, wheelwrights, and one lone horse dentist), the current state of education and health care, and the conscious balance between modern and traditional ways are reflected in an essay that describes how the Old Order dedication to Gelassenheit—the yielding of self to the interests of the larger community—has served its members well into the twenty-first century.
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8. Historic Iowa- A Collection of 40 Books Relating to 18th and 19th Century Iowa History, Genealogies and Its People
CD-ROM: Pages (2009)
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Asin: B002BK5D68
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The Historical Iowa Book Collection is a collection of 40 volumes relating to the history of Iowa and its people primarily in the 18th and 19th centuries. Several of the volumes have great period illustrations and portraits of relevant historical figures.Here are the computer requirements to run and operate this CD. You must have a PC running Windows or a Macintosh running OS X or higher software and a web browser. All the manuals in this disk are in DJVU format. This format allows you to page through the manuals, enlarge pages for better viewing and print the individual pages or entire manual as well as many other things. The viewer is very intuitive to use and has a full help system to answer any questions you may have about its more advanced features. The viewer is included on the CD. ... Read more


9. Cass County Iowa. Genealogy, History
by (Anon).
 Hardcover: Pages (1980-01-01)

Asin: B00410MFV2
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10. Iowa Pride
by Duane A. Schmidt
Paperback: 304 Pages (2002-06-01)
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Asin: 1591601347
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This work recounts the lives and exploits of 110 significant Iowans, with brief biographies highlighting their achievements. They include Norman Borlaug, Simon Estes, Ann Landers, Dan Gable, Fred Maytag, Henry Wallace and Grant Wood. ... Read more


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12. From the Loess Hills of Iowa and The Descendents of Dennis Conyers
by Arden Iva Sleadd
Paperback: 358 Pages (2002-12-09)
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Asin: 1553696492
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Iva Agnes conyers grew up in Iowa in the 1890's. Orphanedat age eight, she suffered ill treatment and loneliness. Through hardwork, grit and determination, she overcame her circumstances andbecame a teacher. In later life, she wrote her memoirs, which havebeen revised and expanded by her grandaughter, Arden Iva Sleadd. Thebook relates the events of Iva's early life; the death of her mother;living with her Mormon grandparents; the remarriage of her father;their move by covered wagon to Kansas and Idaho; the death of herfather; and the heartbreak that followed. Includes brief memoirs byIva's children and others who knew her, along with her personalphotos.

Part Two of the book contains the Conyers family history, compiled byTerri Napoli. It contains over 3400 names of descendants, reflectingten years of research, and includes the accounts of two other Conyerspioneers: Enoch Ward Conyers and John Hiram Conyers. Other surnamesincluded are Hanscom, Hansen, Ballentyne, Hornback, Mitts, Mayfield,Vredenburgh, Horseman and many others. ... Read more


13. Our Town Eddyville [Iowa] 1840-1990
 Hardcover: Pages (1990)

Asin: B000BP4FZU
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14. MAP: Iowa and Eastern Nebraska: 1864 [reproduction of original]
by A.J. Johnson
 Map: Pages (2008-01-01)
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Asin: B003DD4BZG
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Issued by A.J. Johnson in 1864, this maps shows both counties and townships in Iowa. The 32 eastern most counties in Nebraska are depicted, as well as Indian reservations, roads, trails, and small settlements in both areas. Black and white map, printed on 18 x 24 paper, folded. ... Read more


15. A Memorial and Biographical Record of Iowa: Volume 1
 Hardcover: 632 Pages (1978)

Asin: B000BK2CEG
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1 of 2 volumes. 1978 reproduction of 1896 work. Originally published by the Lewis Publishing Company. Reproduced 1978 by Walsworth Publishing Co. Oversized hardcover. 632 pages. Illustrated and indexed ... Read more


16. A Memorial and Biographical Record of Iowa: Volume 2
 Hardcover: Pages (1978)

Asin: B000BK62VA
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17. Schoolwomen of the Prairies and Plains: Personal Narratives from Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska, 1860S-1920s
by Mary Hurlbut Cordier
Paperback: 365 Pages (1997-02)
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Asin: 082631774X
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This lively book, now available in paperback, focuses on the women responsible for educating prairie children. Most were natives of the region, often teenaged girls away from home for the first time. Teaching under difficult circumstances, schoolwomen not only struggled to meet their students' needs but also used all the means at their disposalsummer institutes, normal schools, and even reading programs by mailto upgrade their own educational credentials. ... Read more


18. Sunday Afternoon on the Porch: Reflections of a Small Town in Iowa, 1939-1942 (Bur Oak Book)
by Jim Heynen
Hardcover: 116 Pages (2007-06-15)
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Asin: 1587296535
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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In 1939, just before graduating from high school in the small town of Ridgeway in northeast Iowa, Everett Kuntz spent his entire savings of $12.50 on a 35mm Argus AF camera. He made a camera case from a worn-out boot, scraps from a tin can, and a clasp from his mother’s purse. For the next several years, especially during the summers when he worked on his parents’ dairy farm, he clicked the shutter of his trusty Argus all around the quiet town.

Everett bought movie reel film in bulk from a mail-order house, rolled his own film, and developed it in a closet at home, but he never had the money to print his photographs. More than two thousand negatives stayed in a box while he married, raised a family, and worked as an electrical engineer in the Twin Cities. When he became ill with cancer in the fall of 2002—sixty years after he had developed the last of his bulk film—Everett opened his time capsule and printed the images from his youth. He died in 2003, having brought his childhood town back to life just as he was leaving it.

A sense of peace radiates from these images. Whether skinny-dipping in the Turkey River, wheelbarrow-racing, threshing oats, milking cows, visiting with relatives after church, or hanging out at the drugstore or the movies, Ridgeway’s hardworking citizens are modest and trusting and luminous in their graceful harmony and their unguarded affection for each other. Visiting the town in 2006 as he was writing the text to accompany these photographs, Jim Heynen crafted vignettes that perfectly complement these rediscovered images by blending fact and fiction to give context and voice to Ridgeway’s citizens.
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3-0 out of 5 stars Just before the war
On the strength of these very favorable reviews I got a copy of the book.What a disappointment!The photos are no more than snaps of life in the small town of Ridgeway, Iowa and of Everett Kuntz's family and friends.By the nature of this kind of photography many of the those in the book are soft focus, badly composed or just dull but of course this kind of material is precious and a keepsake to those in the photos but to others the significance evaporates.

I thought the book looked very unimaginative with far too much white space but even with the rather bland photos it did have the potential to sparkle.As a publication designer I would have created a scrapbook feel to the pages leaving the few really good photos as whole page images and the rest blending together with local maps, postcards, high-school yearbooks and any sort of household and commercial printed ephemera from the late thirties.

The sub title: Reflections of a small town in Iowa, 1939-1942, is true but it wasn't the photographer's aim to capture reality too closely.Iowa, with a large agricultural community, suffered terribly during the Depression.The poverty and desperation was covered by four photographers from the Farm Security Administration and their photos can be seen in Unknown Iowa: Farm Security photos, 1936-1941.The sixty-seven photos in the book capture rural and town life in a much more creative and heartfelt way than the bland snaps in 'Sunday afternoon on the porch'.


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5-0 out of 5 stars Sunday Afternoon on the Porch: Reflections of a Small Town in Iowa, 1939-1942
As the front porch picture on the cover suggest a simpler slower time for life in America. Great pictures! Would recommend this book to people of any age. All of the pictures have a story of their own and you can put yourself in their shoes with just a little imagination. Buy this book you won't regret it.

5-0 out of 5 stars If a look at small town life between 1939 and 1942 sounds good to you, don't pass this up.
The pictures were taken between 1939 and 1942 and show what small town and farm life was like in that era. I do wish that there were more pictures in the book, but if you want a look at life during that era, this would be a good addition to your library.

5-0 out of 5 stars A wonderful gift book, especially recommended for connoisseurs of historic slice-of-life American photography
Sunday Afternoon on the Porch: Reflections of a Small Town in Iowa 1939-1942 is a wonderful showcase of black-and-white photography capturing the ordinary men and women of small town Iowa in the wake of the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II. The candid photographs range from "On Duty", an unforgettable snapshot of a uniformed officer with one hand on a baby's stroller, to "Cheerful Classmates", capturing a happy day in school, to "Migrant's Salon" showing a man getting his hair washed by leaning over a bowl while a bucket of water is poured over his head, and more. The text offers additional insight into these timeless glimpses of day-to-day life, as well as some snippets of poetry. A wonderful gift book, especially recommended for connoisseurs of historic slice-of-life American photography.

5-0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Glimpse into our Past
This book is fun..besides getting a glimpse into a nicer time, you get an insight of the man who took this amazing spontaneous photos. Also some facts. I hope there is another book published with more photos. ... Read more


19. Was This Heaven?: A Self-Portrait of Iowa on Early Postcards (Bur Oak Book)
by Lyell D.Jr. Henry
Hardcover: 268 Pages (1995-10-01)
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In the early decades of thetwentieth century, Iowans all across the Hawkeye State succumbed to thenationwide craze for exchanging photographic postcards, mailing eachother thousands of images—serious and whimsical—of Uncle Bob and BabyDora, the Sunday school outing, train wrecks, the Fourth of Julycelebration, the merchants' carnival, the record-setting blizzardfollowing the bin-busting harvest, the new courthouse, Ackley'sSauer-Kraut Band. Now, thanks to the generosity of David A. Wilson,whose ample collection of photographic cards would be the envy of thoseearly Iowans, Lyell Henry has organized more than two hundred postcardsinto eight reflective chapters that create a beguiling collectiveportrait of Iowa life and culture from 1905 to 1919.

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20. An Iowa Album: A Photographic History, 1860-1920 (A Bur Oak Original)
by Mary Bennett
 Hardcover: 328 Pages (1990-10)
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Asin: 0877452539
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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An Iowa Album invites you to travel through sixty years of Iowa history and view the state in its turn-of-the-century glory. This engaging selection of more than 375 photographs, taken from the immense collection of the State Historical Society of Iowa, combined with the firsthand accounts that speak from the past, provides a portrait of Iowa from an era when small towns and rural communities dominated life in the state. The beauty and power of the historical images and the voices that continue to speak to us even today will be welcomed by all who are interested in Iowa history and the settlement of the Midwest and by those intrigued by Iowa's rich legacy of historical photographs. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars This is a book that should be in every Iowa library
Photographic histories of any subject are interesting almost by definition. The images capture for all time specific characteristics of the people and places. In the timeframe covered in this volume, Iowa was almost totally a rural state, with many of the farm families being isolated. That isolation was not total, the reason that Iowa has so many counties was to make sure that every citizen was within a one-day buggy ride from the county seat of government.
The modern world was just beginning to take hold in the state in the first two decades of the twentieth century. There are photos of cars alongside horse and buggies, electric trolleys and wood stoves. One striking feature is how much clothing the people wore, even in summer. There are several photos of people sitting outside or on picnics in the summer and the men are wearing long-sleeve shirts with a coat or vest and the women thick, ankle-length dresses with high collars.
This is a book that should be in every library in Iowa, for it clearly shows the state the way it was for the first seventy years.
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