A Trip Down the Iowa River, 1899
An interesting new item in Special Collections, purchased in 2005, is a photograph album compiled by three men who took a vacation down the Iowa River to the Mississippi river at Burlington in a boat they built before undertaking their journey.
The album contains 40 photographs documenting their trip, from the construction of the boat in Oswald Veblen’s yard, to their various campsites, clouds, thunderstorms, and highlights of the scenery along the way. The result is a charming record of lazy summer days at the end of the nineteenth century.
Click on these thumbnails to view full-size selections from the album:
