• Collection: Women and German Iowa
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Informing on German over the telephones.

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Is Babel still in place? If they can still speak German, "why did we enter the war?"

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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.

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German professor, Melchert, going to continue speaking German.

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

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A composed portrait of German-American opera singer Rose Ettinger taken in Berlin during one of her pre-First-World-War tours of Europe.

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Mayor writes regarding desire to rid Lowden of German language. How to proceed? Notes that in Davenport they've apparently been fining people [mostly women].

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

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A "simple farmer's wife" encodes her dreams and ships it off "to the government."

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