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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.

Wedding of Fred Kaltenbach, Iowa's best-known traitor. Son of German immigrants, he founded a high school club in Dubuque modeled on the Hitler Youth. During the war, he broadcast pro-German propaganda to the American Midwest from Berlin.

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.

"Hawkeye Wedding" song for the marriage of refugee Ruth Salzmann and Sam Becker, to the tune of a well-known German children's song, "The Bird-Wedding."

The former Gustav Burkart Building (1899) in West Liberty--now a Mexican restaurant.