Delivery Wagon for Magnus Brewery Beer, Cedar Rapids, c. 1900. The saloon in the background displays the tongue-in-cheek name "The Cedar Rabbits."

This map illustrates the journey undertaken by Wilhelm Fischer and companions in 1851 from Hamburg to Davenport. It is based on Fischer's travel narrative found in August P. Richter, Geschichte der Stadt Davenport and des County Scott (1917), pp.…

Title page of Iowa, Die Heimath für Einwanderer (Iowa, the Home for Immigrants), 1870. A handbook for immigrants.

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

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

Republican ticket for the presidential election of 1860.

Ad for Iowa farmland, 1871, Des Moines.

Berlin Bakery, Davenport, IA, c. 1900

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

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