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

Thinking of submitting story on Iowa's Germans in time of war to Saturday Evening Post.

Letter to Metcalf in regards to the teaching of German in public schools. Mr. Billingely provided Metcalf names of presidents of the school boards with the O

Letter from J. J. Billingsly to H. J. Metcalf giving a list of names of the presidents of the school in Primghar, Iowa in case H. J. Metcalf didn

This letter to the National Defense Committee is informing them that they wish to stop studying German. Even though they have been studying it for a year and a half they are wondering if they can study a different language instead.

J.J. Billingsly has sent a letter to H.J. Metcalf listing the names of school board presidents in charge of school districts where the German language is being pursued. The names are sent to H.J. Metcalf

Regel informs on the disloyal statements of Robert Henry, who said the US was only in the war because of J.P. Morgan

On the many jabbering Germans in Kamrar.

This letter is in response to a letter from the Chairman of the Iowa Council of National Defense, Lafayette Young, dated November 9, 1917. Jacob Russ is responding to the accusation that he does not whole-heartedly support the United States…

Selections from Civil War diary kept by the thirty-year-old Jacob Naumann, a German-born Union soldier. Includes hand-drawn sketches of individual skirmishes and individual entries.