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  • Collection: Women and German Iowa

In this letter, the librarian in Ottumwa describes having removed a book which had been requested, and also states the removal of several pamphlets. It also asserts that neither were in circulation.

For the first time in our history, the government has called trade union women into active service representing their respective trades in order to meet intelligently the difficulties and complications that will arise from war. This reports explains…

Mrs. Engel sends Harding a newspaper clipping, comments favorably on his speech in Rockwell City--in which he stood by his proclamation like a "man"--and notes that there are many loyal Iowans.

Photo album of German-Jewish Salzmann family in Berlin as they prepare for emigration, and eldest daughter Ruth in England as part of the Kindertransport.

Photo album of German-Jewish Salzmann family 1930s vacations.

Photo album of German-Jewish Salzmann family vacations through the eastern United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s after their flight from Nazi Germany.

County superintendent of schools approves of measure, as she has personally noticed the "pernicious influence" of foreign languages as the method of instruction.

A scrapbook page containing two images: Bertha and her business partner in front of their millinery shop in Scranton, Iowa; Scranton's Opera house

Widow of German-American writes from Ohio, noting that husband asked to join secret society of German Americans who would fight for Fatherland in case of war. Centered in Denver, Iowa.

Susan Stone on the situation in Muscatine and local Germans and religion.
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