Polk County Juvenile Home 1927

The Des Moines Register printed this picture of the Polk County Juvenile Home on March 15, 1927. The home was located at Hull Avenue and East Sixteenth Street in Des Moines.

Drake University Football Players 1927

Drake University football players: Gibson Holliday (center); Charles “Chuck” Delmege (right); Lester Jones (left).

Photo from the Des Moines Register. December 23, 1927.

R. Sieler's Saxaphone Orchestra Sioux City

R. Sieler’s Saxophone Orchestra played dance tunes for Sioux City listeners on KSCJ radio.

Members (left to right): Marvin Johnson (trombone); L. Fredericks (banjo); L. Gunderson (cornet); R. Sielers (saxaphone); T. De Mare (percussionist); N. Connovar (saxaphone); and A. Flurie (piano).

Photo from the Sioux City Journal. July 24, 1927.

Photograph Of Downtown Eldridge In 1929

The Davenport Democrat and Leader. December 1, 1929.

The Davenport Democrat and Leader printed this photograph of Main Street in Eldridge, Iowa, as part of a photo spread on progress in the city. 

Bill Glasgow University of Iowa Hawkeye Half Back

Des Moines Register. January 19, 1930.

University of Iowa All-American half back Bill Glasgow received the Chicago Tribune Big Ten Trophy of 1930 as a star of the Western Conference.

Lucielle And Erma Iversen Clinton Iowa Performers

Lucille and Erma Iversen, better known as "The Iversen Dolls," performed for large audiences in Clinton, Iowa, in the early 1920s. The children could sing and dance like real actors.

Lucielle, age 3, usually performs as a man, and Erma, age 4, as a woman. They have performed at Red Cross benefits, automobile shows, and numerous conventions.

Photo Ackley High School Baseball Team 1913

The Des Moines Register printed this picture of the Ackley High School baseball team. They won seven out of eight games played in the season. The only team that defeated them was Union high school.

Top row: Fakers, Snater, DeNul
Middle row: Reinhardt, Bolender, R. Leach, Bleeks.
Bottom row: Penning, G. Leach.

Photograph of Schools in Amana Colonies 1922

 

School building in the Amana Colonies, circa 1922. (Des Moines Register. October 22, 1922)

Photograph of Chariton Iowa in 1871

The Des Moines Register (October 22, 1922) printed this picture of downtown Chariton, Iowa in 1871. They said the picket fence around the courthouse yard had a stile around it to prevent the cattle from getting in. When farmers came to town, they unhitched their horses and fed them from the wagons.

Shop The Kahl Building

This advertisement encouraging people to shop the Kahl Building in downtown Davenport was published in the Davenport Democrat and Leader on September 25, 1921.

Muscatine Business District Lit Up At Night

The Muscatine Journal published this image of the city's buisness district all lit up under the new illumination system. The lights were turned on at 8 p.m. on February 1, 1928, by the Queen of Light (unidentified). (colorized version of black and white newspaper image)

Santa Claus Delivering Toys

This image of Santa Claus and his sleigh appeared on the front page of the Des Moines Tribune, Christmas Day, 1925. (I colored and touched up the black and white artwork)

The Doo Dads Reach Candy Land

Does anyone else see the beginnings of Dr. Seuss in this image and story?

The Doo Dads reach Candy Land

The dudes had to leave the land of the long-legged Doo Dads without finding any reason for their long legs. They scrambled back into their machine and started in the quest of new adventures.

They were chattering away and laughing merrily when they began to wrinkle up their stubby noses, and altogether they said, “What is that I smell?

(Colored image from the Des Moines Tribune. February 25, 1922)

Alice Finn Miss Popularity Winner 1927

Alice Finn of Des Moines, Iowa, won the 1927 popularity contest hosted by the Publix Theaters. She played several parts in the theater’s shows, and appeared on stage in, “In Dutch.”

Pencil drawing of an image published in the Des Moines Register on July 8, 1928,

Boone Iowa High School Class of 1890

 

Boone High School class of 1890.

Back row: John Goeppinger, Omar Mann.
Third girl from left: Mrs. C. Canfield.
Bottom row: W. W. Goodykoonts, Mrs. H. T. Cook, Arthur Crary, and Fred Crary.

(Photo from the Des Moines Register. April 24, 1927)

Fourth Street Sioux City, Iowa 1910

Sioux City, Iowa. Fourth Street, looking east from Pierce. (circa 1910). Nice view of trolleys and horse and buggies sharing the street with pedestrians.

Downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa Circa 1910

Downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with a birds-eye view of the Quaker Oats plant. (from a vintage postcard, circa 1910)

Washington Street Iowa City, Iowa. Circa 1910

 

Washington Street in Iowa City, Iowa. (from a vintage postcard, circa 1910)

Main Street Dubuque, Iowa Circa 1920s

Main Street, looking north from Eighth Street. Dubuque, Iowa. (cira 1920s, from a vintage postcard)

Davenport Writers Group

 

Members of the Davenport Writers Group engaged in a heated literary discussion. left to right: Arthur Davison Ficke, Floyd Dell, Suasan Glaspell, and George Cram Cook.