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          "url": "https://isuu00001library102stg.blob.core.windows.net/digital-objects/farmsteadpicturecollection/0390_iowafarmsteadpicturecollection_0001-001-001.jpg",
          "alt": "Stock farm of Mrs. H. Fullinwider and residence of Joash Hedges, Huron Township, Des Moines County, Iowa",
          "caption": null,
          "credit": "Iowa Farmstead Picture Collection"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Iowa Farmstead Picture Collection Timeline",
          "text": "State atlases and other publications from the late 19th and early 20th centuries included illustrations of Iowa farms. This collection contains engravings and lithographs (some hand-colored) depicting farmsteads and stock farms in several Iowa counties circa 1871-1904."
        }
    },
    "events": [
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        "media": {
          "url": "https://isuu00001library102stg.blob.core.windows.net/digital-objects/farmsteadpicturecollection/small/0390_iowafarmsteadpicturecollection_0001-001-001_sm.jpg",
          "alt": "Item from a collection of engravings, lithographs (some hand-colored), and photogravures depicting farmsteads and stock farms in Iowa circa 1871-1904. Prints in the collection originally appeared in such vintage atlases as A. T. Andreas's \"Illustrated historical atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1875), M. Huebinger's \"Atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1904), and other publications.",
          "caption": "Stock farm of Mrs. H. Fullinwider and residence of Joash Hedges, Huron Township, Des Moines County, Iowa",
          "link": "https://digitalcollections.lib.iastate.edu/farmsteadpicturecollection/items/farmsteadpicturecollection1.html"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          
          "year": "1880"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Stock farm of Mrs. H. Fullinwider and residence of Joash Hedges, Huron Township, Des Moines County, Iowa",
          "text": "Item from a collection of engravings, lithographs (some hand-colored), and photogravures depicting farmsteads and stock farms in Iowa circa 1871-1904. Prints in the collection originally appeared in such vintage atlases as A. T. Andreas's \"Illustrated historical atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1875), M. Huebinger's \"Atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1904), and other publications."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://isuu00001library102stg.blob.core.windows.net/digital-objects/farmsteadpicturecollection/small/0390_iowafarmsteadpicturecollection_0001-003-002_sm.jpg",
          "alt": "Item from a collection of engravings, lithographs (some hand-colored), and photogravures depicting farmsteads and stock farms in Iowa circa 1871-1904. Prints in the collection originally appeared in such vintage atlases as A. T. Andreas's \"Illustrated historical atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1875), M. Huebinger's \"Atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1904), and other publications.",
          "caption": "Farm residences of Josiah Tuffy and H. O. Beebee, Taylor Township, Harrison County, Iowa",
          "link": "https://digitalcollections.lib.iastate.edu/farmsteadpicturecollection/items/farmsteadpicturecollection10.html"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          
          "year": "1875"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Farm residences of Josiah Tuffy and H. O. Beebee, Taylor Township, Harrison County, Iowa",
          "text": "Item from a collection of engravings, lithographs (some hand-colored), and photogravures depicting farmsteads and stock farms in Iowa circa 1871-1904. Prints in the collection originally appeared in such vintage atlases as A. T. Andreas's \"Illustrated historical atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1875), M. Huebinger's \"Atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1904), and other publications."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://isuu00001library102stg.blob.core.windows.net/digital-objects/farmsteadpicturecollection/small/0390_iowafarmsteadpicturecollection_0001-003-001_sm.jpg",
          "alt": "Item from a collection of engravings, lithographs (some hand-colored), and photogravures depicting farmsteads and stock farms in Iowa circa 1871-1904. Prints in the collection originally appeared in such vintage atlases as A. T. Andreas's \"Illustrated historical atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1875), M. Huebinger's \"Atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1904), and other publications.",
          "caption": "Farm residence of Charles Gilmore and stock farm and residence of R. McGavren, St. Johns Township, Harrison County, Iowa",
          "link": "https://digitalcollections.lib.iastate.edu/farmsteadpicturecollection/items/farmsteadpicturecollection11.html"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          
          "year": "1875"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Farm residence of Charles Gilmore and stock farm and residence of R. McGavren, St. Johns Township, Harrison County, Iowa",
          "text": "Item from a collection of engravings, lithographs (some hand-colored), and photogravures depicting farmsteads and stock farms in Iowa circa 1871-1904. Prints in the collection originally appeared in such vintage atlases as A. T. Andreas's \"Illustrated historical atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1875), M. Huebinger's \"Atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1904), and other publications."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://isuu00001library102stg.blob.core.windows.net/digital-objects/farmsteadpicturecollection/small/0390_iowafarmsteadpicturecollection_0001-005-002_sm.jpg",
          "alt": "Illustration of Iowa dairies and stock farms. Published in M. (Melchior) Huebinger, Atlas of the State of Iowa, Davenport, Iowa: Iowa Publishing Co., Inc., 1904, plates 30-31.",
          "caption": "Iowa dairies and stock farms in \"Atlas of the State of Iowa\"",
          "link": "https://digitalcollections.lib.iastate.edu/farmsteadpicturecollection/items/farmsteadpicturecollection12.html"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          
          "year": "1904"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Iowa dairies and stock farms in \"Atlas of the State of Iowa\"",
          "text": "Illustration of Iowa dairies and stock farms. Published in M. (Melchior) Huebinger, Atlas of the State of Iowa, Davenport, Iowa: Iowa Publishing Co., Inc., 1904, plates 30-31."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://isuu00001library102stg.blob.core.windows.net/digital-objects/farmsteadpicturecollection/small/0390_iowafarmsteadpicturecollection_0001-006-001_sm.jpg",
          "alt": "Illustration of Orchard Grove Farm, including Wilson Post Office, a grocery store, and the farm residence and nursery of Isaac H. Page, postmaster. Published in A. T. Andreas, Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, Chicago: Andreas Atlas Co., 1875.",
          "caption": "Orchard Grove Farm, Section 6, Pilot Grove Township, Montgomery County, Iowa",
          "link": "https://digitalcollections.lib.iastate.edu/farmsteadpicturecollection/items/farmsteadpicturecollection13.html"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          
          "year": "1875"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Orchard Grove Farm, Section 6, Pilot Grove Township, Montgomery County, Iowa",
          "text": "Illustration of Orchard Grove Farm, including Wilson Post Office, a grocery store, and the farm residence and nursery of Isaac H. Page, postmaster. Published in A. T. Andreas, Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, Chicago: Andreas Atlas Co., 1875."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://isuu00001library102stg.blob.core.windows.net/digital-objects/farmsteadpicturecollection/small/0390_iowafarmsteadpicturecollection_0001-006-002_sm.jpg",
          "alt": "Illustrations of the stock farms and residences of J. M. Baxter, Esq., Sections 1 and 6, Cass Township, Cass County, Iowa; and W. F. Brenton, (Brenton's Grove), Section 23, Edna Township, Cass County. Published in A. T. Andreas, Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, Chicago: Andreas Atlas Co., 1875.",
          "caption": "Stock farms and residences of J. M. Baxter, Esq., and W. F. Brenton, Cass County, Iowa",
          "link": "https://digitalcollections.lib.iastate.edu/farmsteadpicturecollection/items/farmsteadpicturecollection14.html"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          
          "year": "1875"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Stock farms and residences of J. M. Baxter, Esq., and W. F. Brenton, Cass County, Iowa",
          "text": "Illustrations of the stock farms and residences of J. M. Baxter, Esq., Sections 1 and 6, Cass Township, Cass County, Iowa; and W. F. Brenton, (Brenton's Grove), Section 23, Edna Township, Cass County. Published in A. T. Andreas, Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, Chicago: Andreas Atlas Co., 1875."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://isuu00001library102stg.blob.core.windows.net/digital-objects/farmsteadpicturecollection/small/0390_iowafarmsteadpicturecollection_0001-010-001_sm.jpg",
          "alt": "Illustrations of Mt. Vernon House, Mt. Vernon; Flouring Mill of Greer & Hunter, Decorah; W. Taylor Dry Goods & Co., Spillville; G. Priest and Son, Bloomfield Mills, Dealers in Grain, Flour & Mill Feed, Bloomfield, Davis County; Maple Grove Herd, residence of D. Cookson and Sons, \"Breeders of Thorough Bred Short Horn Cattle,\" near West Liberty; St. Benedict's Church and Parsonage, Decorah; Catholic Church and Pastoral Residence, Cresco, M. A. McCarty, Pastor; and First Methodist Episcopal Church, Marshalltown. Published in Andreas, A. T., Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, Chicago: Andreas Atlas Co., 1875, pages 15-16.",
          "caption": "Cattle at the residence of D. Cookson and Sons, near West Liberty, and other buildings and churches in Iowa",
          "link": "https://digitalcollections.lib.iastate.edu/farmsteadpicturecollection/items/farmsteadpicturecollection15.html"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          
          "year": "1875"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Cattle at the residence of D. Cookson and Sons, near West Liberty, and other buildings and churches in Iowa",
          "text": "Illustrations of Mt. Vernon House, Mt. Vernon; Flouring Mill of Greer & Hunter, Decorah; W. Taylor Dry Goods & Co., Spillville; G. Priest and Son, Bloomfield Mills, Dealers in Grain, Flour & Mill Feed, Bloomfield, Davis County; Maple Grove Herd, residence of D. Cookson and Sons, \"Breeders of Thorough Bred Short Horn Cattle,\" near West Liberty; St. Benedict's Church and Parsonage, Decorah; Catholic Church and Pastoral Residence, Cresco, M. A. McCarty, Pastor; and First Methodist Episcopal Church, Marshalltown. Published in Andreas, A. T., Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, Chicago: Andreas Atlas Co., 1875, pages 15-16."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://isuu00001library102stg.blob.core.windows.net/digital-objects/farmsteadpicturecollection/small/0390_iowafarmsteadpicturecollection_0001-011-002_sm.jpg",
          "alt": "Illustration of the Sigourney, Iowa, residences of George D. Woodin, Attorney at Law; J. A. Donnell, Esq.; the Honorable John C. Hogin; and Dr. H. W. Selby. Published in A. T. Andreas, Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, Chicago: Andreas Atlas Co., 1875, pages 75-76.",
          "caption": "Residences of George D. Woodin, J. A. Donnell, John C. Hogin, and H. W. Selby, Keokuk County, Iowa",
          "link": "https://digitalcollections.lib.iastate.edu/farmsteadpicturecollection/items/farmsteadpicturecollection16.html"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          
          "year": "1875"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Residences of George D. Woodin, J. A. Donnell, John C. Hogin, and H. W. Selby, Keokuk County, Iowa",
          "text": "Illustration of the Sigourney, Iowa, residences of George D. Woodin, Attorney at Law; J. A. Donnell, Esq.; the Honorable John C. Hogin; and Dr. H. W. Selby. Published in A. T. Andreas, Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, Chicago: Andreas Atlas Co., 1875, pages 75-76."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://isuu00001library102stg.blob.core.windows.net/digital-objects/farmsteadpicturecollection/small/0390_iowafarmsteadpicturecollection_0001-012-001_sm.jpg",
          "alt": "Item from a collection of engravings, lithographs (some hand-colored), and photogravures depicting farmsteads and stock farms in Iowa circa 1871-1904. Prints in the collection originally appeared in such vintage atlases as A. T. Andreas's \"Illustrated historical atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1875), M. Huebinger's \"Atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1904), and other publications.",
          "caption": "\"Excelsior mower\" working with the cutter bar elevated and right wheel passing through a ditch",
          "link": "https://digitalcollections.lib.iastate.edu/farmsteadpicturecollection/items/farmsteadpicturecollection17.html"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          
          "year": "1871"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "\"Excelsior mower\" working with the cutter bar elevated and right wheel passing through a ditch",
          "text": "Item from a collection of engravings, lithographs (some hand-colored), and photogravures depicting farmsteads and stock farms in Iowa circa 1871-1904. Prints in the collection originally appeared in such vintage atlases as A. T. Andreas's \"Illustrated historical atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1875), M. Huebinger's \"Atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1904), and other publications."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://isuu00001library102stg.blob.core.windows.net/digital-objects/farmsteadpicturecollection/small/0390_iowafarmsteadpicturecollection_0001-004-001_sm.jpg",
          "alt": "Illustration of the residence of C. W. Norton, Breeder of Red Short Horn Cattle and Berkshire Hogs, Section 12, Wilton Township, Muscatine County, Iowa, P.O. Address Durant. Published in A. T. Andreas, Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, Chicago: Andreas Atlas Co., 1875, page 90.",
          "caption": "Residence of C. W. Norton, breeder of cattle and hogs, Wilton Township, Muscatine County, Iowa",
          "link": "https://digitalcollections.lib.iastate.edu/farmsteadpicturecollection/items/farmsteadpicturecollection2.html"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          
          "year": "1875"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Residence of C. W. Norton, breeder of cattle and hogs, Wilton Township, Muscatine County, Iowa",
          "text": "Illustration of the residence of C. W. Norton, Breeder of Red Short Horn Cattle and Berkshire Hogs, Section 12, Wilton Township, Muscatine County, Iowa, P.O. Address Durant. Published in A. T. Andreas, Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, Chicago: Andreas Atlas Co., 1875, page 90."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://isuu00001library102stg.blob.core.windows.net/digital-objects/farmsteadpicturecollection/small/0390_iowafarmsteadpicturecollection_0001-008-001_sm.jpg",
          "alt": "Illustration in Frank Leslie's Illustrirte Zeitung, a German-language newspaper published in New York, with the caption \"Heuschrecken-Plage im Westen--Farmer von Wright Co., Iowa, versuchen durch das Verbrennen von feuchtem Stroh die Heuschrecken zu vertreiben\" (\"Grasshopper plague in the West--farmers in Wright County, Iowa, attempting to drive away grasshoppers by burning damp straw\").",
          "caption": "Grasshopper plague in Wright County, Iowa (Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper)",
          "link": "https://digitalcollections.lib.iastate.edu/farmsteadpicturecollection/items/farmsteadpicturecollection28.html"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          
          "year": "1874"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Grasshopper plague in Wright County, Iowa (Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper)",
          "text": "Illustration in Frank Leslie's Illustrirte Zeitung, a German-language newspaper published in New York, with the caption \"Heuschrecken-Plage im Westen--Farmer von Wright Co., Iowa, versuchen durch das Verbrennen von feuchtem Stroh die Heuschrecken zu vertreiben\" (\"Grasshopper plague in the West--farmers in Wright County, Iowa, attempting to drive away grasshoppers by burning damp straw\")."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://isuu00001library102stg.blob.core.windows.net/digital-objects/farmsteadpicturecollection/small/0390_iowafarmsteadpicturecollection_0001-009-001_sm.jpg",
          "alt": "Pages from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, July 4, 1885, Vol. LX, No. 1,554. The front page depicts a family sheltering from a tornado in Iowa. Miriam Leslie, widow of Frank Leslie, managed the New York publication after his death in 1880.",
          "caption": "Iowa--the approach of a tornado--a family seeking refuge in a \"cyclone shelter\" (Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper)",
          "link": "https://digitalcollections.lib.iastate.edu/farmsteadpicturecollection/items/farmsteadpicturecollection32.html"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          
          "month": "07",
          "day": "04",
          "year": "1885"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Iowa--the approach of a tornado--a family seeking refuge in a \"cyclone shelter\" (Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper)",
          "text": "Pages from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, July 4, 1885, Vol. LX, No. 1,554. The front page depicts a family sheltering from a tornado in Iowa. Miriam Leslie, widow of Frank Leslie, managed the New York publication after his death in 1880."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://isuu00001library102stg.blob.core.windows.net/digital-objects/farmsteadpicturecollection/small/0390_iowafarmsteadpicturecollection_0001-005-001_sm.jpg",
          "alt": "Illustration of Mount Prospect Farm, A. R. Ohl and Sons, proprietors, southeast of Iowa City, Iowa. Published in M. (Melchior) Huebinger, Atlas of the State of Iowa, Davenport, Iowa: Iowa Publishing Co., Inc., 1904, plates 30-31.",
          "caption": "Mount Prospect Farm owned by A. R. Ohl and sons, one mile southeast of Iowa City, Iowa",
          "link": "https://digitalcollections.lib.iastate.edu/farmsteadpicturecollection/items/farmsteadpicturecollection3.html"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          
          "year": "1904"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Mount Prospect Farm owned by A. R. Ohl and sons, one mile southeast of Iowa City, Iowa",
          "text": "Illustration of Mount Prospect Farm, A. R. Ohl and Sons, proprietors, southeast of Iowa City, Iowa. Published in M. (Melchior) Huebinger, Atlas of the State of Iowa, Davenport, Iowa: Iowa Publishing Co., Inc., 1904, plates 30-31."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://isuu00001library102stg.blob.core.windows.net/digital-objects/farmsteadpicturecollection/small/0390_iowafarmsteadpicturecollection_0001-007-001_sm.jpg",
          "alt": "Item from a collection of engravings, lithographs (some hand-colored), and photogravures depicting farmsteads and stock farms in Iowa circa 1871-1904. Prints in the collection originally appeared in such vintage atlases as A. T. Andreas's \"Illustrated historical atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1875), M. Huebinger's \"Atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1904), and other publications.",
          "caption": "Farm residence of Mrs. Silas Rice, stock farm and residence of Dr. J. Giddings, and farm residence of Wm. Ganzhorn, Magnolia Township, Harrison County, Iowa",
          "link": "https://digitalcollections.lib.iastate.edu/farmsteadpicturecollection/items/farmsteadpicturecollection4.html"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          
          "year": "1875"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Farm residence of Mrs. Silas Rice, stock farm and residence of Dr. J. Giddings, and farm residence of Wm. Ganzhorn, Magnolia Township, Harrison County, Iowa",
          "text": "Item from a collection of engravings, lithographs (some hand-colored), and photogravures depicting farmsteads and stock farms in Iowa circa 1871-1904. Prints in the collection originally appeared in such vintage atlases as A. T. Andreas's \"Illustrated historical atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1875), M. Huebinger's \"Atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1904), and other publications."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://isuu00001library102stg.blob.core.windows.net/digital-objects/farmsteadpicturecollection/small/0390_iowafarmsteadpicturecollection_0001-011-001_sm.jpg",
          "alt": "Illustration of the residence of T. H. Dunkin, Union Township, Monroe County, Iowa. Published in Andreas, A. T., Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, Chicago: Andreas Atlas Co., 1875, pages 75-76.",
          "caption": "Residence of T. H. Dunkin, Union Township, Monroe County, Iowa",
          "link": "https://digitalcollections.lib.iastate.edu/farmsteadpicturecollection/items/farmsteadpicturecollection7.html"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          
          "year": "1875"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Residence of T. H. Dunkin, Union Township, Monroe County, Iowa",
          "text": "Illustration of the residence of T. H. Dunkin, Union Township, Monroe County, Iowa. Published in Andreas, A. T., Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, Chicago: Andreas Atlas Co., 1875, pages 75-76."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://isuu00001library102stg.blob.core.windows.net/digital-objects/farmsteadpicturecollection/small/0390_iowafarmsteadpicturecollection_0001-012-002_sm.jpg",
          "alt": "Item from a collection of engravings, lithographs (some hand-colored), and photogravures depicting farmsteads and stock farms in Iowa circa 1871-1904. Prints in the collection originally appeared in such vintage atlases as A. T. Andreas's \"Illustrated historical atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1875), M. Huebinger's \"Atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1904), and other publications.",
          "caption": "Wheeler's patent reaper at work",
          "link": "https://digitalcollections.lib.iastate.edu/farmsteadpicturecollection/items/farmsteadpicturecollection8.html"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          
          "year": "1871"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Wheeler's patent reaper at work",
          "text": "Item from a collection of engravings, lithographs (some hand-colored), and photogravures depicting farmsteads and stock farms in Iowa circa 1871-1904. Prints in the collection originally appeared in such vintage atlases as A. T. Andreas's \"Illustrated historical atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1875), M. Huebinger's \"Atlas of the state of Iowa\" (1904), and other publications."
        }
      }
    ]
}