Helen Tylee was left alone to manage the family farm during World War II while Ben Tylee was deployed in Europe. In 1942, the Cedar Rapids Gazette ran a story on her situation, entitled 'She's a Soldier, Too" and this photograph accompanied the…

The leather-bound front cover of a family album of the Naumans, a German-American family in nineteenth-century Iowa

The front page of the Nauman family album

An image of the Naumann ancestral home in Wiebelskirchen, Germany, as seen in 1912 during Sarah (Nauman) Keyes trip to Germany with her academic husband and daughter.

Cross-generational photograph of Nauman family members taken in 1906 in Blairstown, Iowa. The backside lists family members present.

Broad-scale image of ancestral Nauman family home of Wiebelskirchen taken in years before First World War.

Photograph following the wedding of German immigrant Jacob Naumann and his Ohio-born bride, Catherine Ann Keck.

Image of German-American opera singer Rose Ettinger practicing with teacher Sarah Hershey Eddy

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

An image of the Ettinger family home in Waterloo, Iowa with three family members standing on the porch. According to the backside, the house sat at 1026 Washington Street