Under the guise of an assessment of CoD activities, Wade makes a forceful argument that the CoD has been a showpiece--an advisory board for the governor--given little real power or funds.
Wonders what the current position is on languages. Are "we to let these fellows do as they please and talk as they like now, or are we still making them be good."
A scrapbook page containing two images: Tabitha Linn Gotter, the mother of Bertha Hedges; Bertha's elementary classmates and teacher in Greene County in the 1890s.
A black-and-white group portrait of the four Gotter daughters of Greene County, Iowa. The eldest, Millie, died of appendicitis in 1895 and is therefore not pictured.
A widowed mother in Germany writes her son and daughter-in-law explaining why she cannot bring herself to emigrate, even though they have sent money for her passage. She includes information on perceptions of immigrant life in America, as well as the…
Photograph from the wedding of American soldier Ben Tylee and his German war bride, Magdalena Gerhard. They married in 1922, following his service in the war. On the back, Magdalena has written "Ben & I, May 6, 1922, married in Coblentz."
