From the pro-German publication, The Fatherland

From the pro-German publication, The Fatherland.

Sample election ballot for the Muscatine city elections of March 4, 1918, published by the Muscatine Herold. By publishing the ballot with an affidavit in German from the City Recorder, the Herold allowed its readers to familiarize themselves in…

Photograph of Leopold Sheuerman, owner of Capital City Woolen Mills, 1912.

Ad for Capital City Woolen Mills, led by German clothing manufacturers. 1906.

Berlin Bakery, Davenport, IA, c. 1900

Ad for Iowa farmland, 1871, Des Moines.

Republican ticket for the presidential election of 1860.

Rev. Paul Dobberstein, a native of Rosenfeld, Germany, at work on the Grotto of Redemption ca. 1912.

"Agent" page of Iowa, Die Heimath für Einwanderer, revised 1873 edition. A handbook for immigrants.