Iowa Brewing Company on the north side of Market Street between Linn Street and Gilbert Street in Iowa City, c. 1909. Founded as the Great Western Brewery in 1857, it was bought in 1873 by John Dostal and later run by his sons as the Dostal Brothers…

translation of ad: "J.P. Dostal, Great Western Brewery, maker of the finest beer in Iowa City and the whole region. I warmly recommend my brewery to the public. All orders from in and out of town will be processed promptly. J.P. Dostal"

The former Gustav Burkart Building (1899) in West Liberty--now a Mexican restaurant.

"Hawkeye Wedding" song for the marriage of refugee Ruth Salzmann and Sam Becker, to the tune of a well-known German children's song, "The Bird-Wedding."

German POWs on a work assignment in WWII.

German native Helen Tylee, who ran the family's Linn County farm during her husband's deployment.

Wax seal presented in 1979 by the City of Vienna to Eric Kollman, who had fled Vienna in 1939 and who became a history professor at Cornell College.

Passport of Ruth Salzmann, a refugee from Berlin and later an Iowa nurse and activist.

Wedding of Fred Kaltenbach, Iowa's best-known traitor. Son of German immigrants, he founded a high school club in Dubuque modeled on the Hitler Youth. During the war, he broadcast pro-German propaganda to the American Midwest from Berlin.