This picture was drawn by one of the guests that stayed at the Scattergood Hostel

This photo was taken as the first guests arrived at the Scattergood Hostel

A transcription of Jacob Naumann's church attest, provided courtesy of Ute Brandenburg.

Chart showing foreign-born population in Iowa in relation to total population from 1850 to 1970, as well as a more detailed breakdown by decade and country of birth.

The Iowa Council of National Defense decided that German should not be taught in any schools in Iowa. German songs and texts must not be read or sung in schools either. It is mentioned that when this letter was written, there still was not a single…

The Committee on Publicity is creating a fellow committee which will go through the newspapers of Iowa looking for important pieces of propaganda that they which for the entire Iowa National Defense team to know.

Governor W.L. Harding created a state-wide holiday called

The Committee on Co-ordination of Societies of the Iowa Council for National Defense wants a contact in every religious, patriotic, benevolent, civic, and secret societies of Iowa. They want to be in contact with them to be able to make occasional…

The letter is written by Herbert J. Metcalf, Secretary for the Council of National Defense in Iowa. He is targeting German-Americans and any German sympathizers. He wants to collect a list of any book that is in any way pro-German.

This brief notice from the Iowa Council of Defense encourages a (presumably once included) poster to be displayed clearly so as to facilitate the building of more silos and thereby increase necessary wartime production.