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
Farm Family Working Together
Time Frame: ca. 1940
Farm Family Worker Together. In the early half of the 20th century Iowa farms were family farms. Husband, wife and children all had roles on the farm. This family brings a wagonload of grain to the threshing machine.
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