By February in Iowa, ice, snow, and freezing temperatures have dragged on for so long that it becomes hard to remember a time when it wasn’t winter. Luckily, our new Iowa City Flood Digital Collection brings the summer back in vivid detail. As documented in the collection’s photographs and oral history interviews, only a little over six months ago the streets were filled with thousands of overheated volunteers, millions of sandbags and several feet of displaced Iowa River.

It kind of makes us appreciate the cold.

–Jen Wolfe, Metadata Librarian
Digital Library Services