The Iowa Digital Library is fortunate to host the college scrapbooks of three University of Iowa students from the 1920s and 1930s, which provide views of the African-American community during their time on campus.
![Althea Beatrice Moore Smith scrapbook cover, 1924-1928](https://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/studio/files/2015/02/moore-cover-300x243.jpg)
The Althea Beatrice Moore Smith scrapbook was added to the Iowa Digital Library thanks to a collaboration between the African American Museum of Iowa and the Iowa Women’s Archives.
![Althea Moore and friend on steps of Old Capitol, Iowa City, Iowa, between 1924 and 1928](https://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/studio/files/2015/02/Althea_Moore_and_friend_on_steps_of_Old_Capitol_Iowa_City_Iowa_between_1924_and_1928-300x222.jpg)
![Patrobas Cassius Robinson college scrapbook cover, 1923-1928](https://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/studio/files/2015/02/pcr-cover-300x251.jpg)
Hal and Avril Chase of Des Moines, Iowa, funded the purchase of this album for the University of Iowa Archives.
![Patrobas Cassius Robinson](https://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/studio/files/2015/02/pcr-portrait-240x300.jpg)
![James B. Morris Jr. photo album cover, 1937-1941](https://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/studio/files/2015/02/morris-cover-246x300.jpg)
James Morris was the son of James Morris, Sr., a long-time publisher of the Iowa State Bystander, an African-American newspaper. James Morris Jr. married Arlene J. Roberts Morris, the first African-American woman psychologist to be licensed by the Iowa State Board of Psychology.
![Captain James B. Morris, Jr. 1944](https://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/studio/files/2015/02/morris_photos_01901-231x300.jpg)