An overview of Davenport history, written by the editor of the Der Demokrat, Davenport's leading German newspaper. To access the Table of Contents, together with digitized pages of the work, please visit the University of Iowa's DIYHistory site at…
Image of the Agents page from the revised 1873 immigration handbook published by the Iowa Board of Immigration. The state maintained agents in Hamburg, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and London.
Image of the first page of Chapter Seventeen from the revised 1873 immigration handbook published by the Iowa Board of Immigration. The chapter gives prospective immigrants information on common wages for various professions and various means of…
Image of the first page of Chapter Sixteen from the revised 1873 immigration handbook published by the Iowa Board of Immigration. The chapter itself provides information on counties in Iowa with a large portion of German settlers: Adams County,…