Copy of the anti-German Babel Proclamation by Gov. Willian L. Harding.

Promotion of Liberty Bonds

Englert Theater advertisement. The Englert Theater, built in 1912 for vaudeville shows, was rebuilt as a modern movie palace in 1926.

Women's basketball team of the Northwest Davenport Turners, 1929.

Helen Tylee's family poked fun at prohibition during her 1930 visit to Germany. The child's sign reads "Prohibition kaput." Helen is on the left.

Boy Scout from Amana in 1934.

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

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.

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

German POWs on a work assignment in WWII.