Getting to School
Dust-blown rural road
Busy Street, Early 1900s
Car in Muddy Road Rut, ca. 1920
Modern School Bus, 2004
Children in a Horse-drawn Carriage
Farm Family Picking Tomatoes, 1945
Farm Family Working Together
McGuffey’s Readers
One-room Schoolhouse
Scarce Supplies
Busy Street, Early 1900s
Time Frame: Early 1900s
Cars, buses and streetcars all shared the road in the early 1900s. Signs, light poles and overhead cables clutter the view in the city.
Photo courtesy of the Iowa Department of Transportation
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