Fortepan Iowa features curated photos taken by ordinary Iowans over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The photos represent the personal, whimsical, poetic, significant, and accidentally artistic moments of everyday Iowa life, and tell a rich story of Iowa’s great diversity and complexity.
The project serves as an ever-growing public website, providing opportunities for deep reflection on who we are as a State. Our aim is to find and digitize evocative archival photographs taken by everyday Iowans-photographs that might disappear or be thrown away-and organize them into an easily searchable visual chronology, with other functionalities that help you browse through, tag, geo-locate, and download the images.
I HAPPENED UPON THIS SITE WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT, AND TO MY ASTONISHMENT NO ONE HAS LEFT ANY KIND OF INFORMATION! MY FAMILY BEGAN LIVING HERE AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF WEBSTER CITY, I KNOW A LOT ABOUT THE AREA.. IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU HAD MORE INFO AND PICTURES.
We recommend you check out all the photos in the Fortepan IA archive connected to Webster City, Hamilton County, and the Doug McMurray collection: fortepan.us/categories/all?basic=&tag=&term=&startYear=&endYear=&donor=1213&city=Webster+City&county=Hamilton&state=&country=&query=
I love this video. The great state of Iowa threw me in there when I was just 16 without separation from the adults. I remember the youngest when it was still under construction was a twelve-year-old boy. Can't remember his name now but he killed his abusive parents. I think he became a lawyer and changed his name and nobody ever heard of after. You're right there is so much history. And it's haunted to.
