Empathetic note from local Loyalty League seeking concession for mother who has recently lost son in service in France.

The leather-bound front cover of a family album of the Naumans, a German-American family in nineteenth-century Iowa

An image of the Ettinger family home in Waterloo, Iowa with three family members standing on the porch. According to the backside, the house sat at 1026 Washington Street

The eulogy includes three "episodes" on the life of Dr. Paul Laube, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Dubuque, Iowa and faculty member at the University of Dubuque. The eulogy describes Dr. Laube's Christian character, his sentiments…

A black-and-white group portrait of the four Gotter daughters of Greene County, Iowa. The eldest, Millie, died of appendicitis in 1895 and is therefore not pictured.

The front page of the Nauman family album

A scrapbook page containing two images: the Gotter family home in Greene County; Millie, the eldest daughter, who later died of appendicitis

Hertzberg Family in formal wear outside of Chicago home--many ages, three women, and six men.

Charles and Sarah stand in front of their recently completed house in Mount Vernon, Iowa

Keyes writes on board the ocean liner Patricia on the way home from Europe.