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Photographs & Audio/Visual
Discover more than one million photographs, films and recordings documenting Iowa history from the 1840s to the present. Materials in the collection include photographic prints, daguerreotypes, tintypes, glass plate, lithographic, slides, film, video cassettes and digital formats.
Collection Highlights
| Businesses | Oral History |
| Churches | Political Events |
| City of Des Moines | Postcards |
| Domestic Life | Recreation |
| Farms | Schools |
| Government | Social Events |
| Landmarks | Stereographs |
| Main Streets | Topography |
| Notable Iowans |