Students rush to class formally attired in suits and dresses. Football fans stream out of Model Ts and into a brand new Kinnick Stadium. Herbert Hoover campaigns for president on the steps of the Old Capitol building.

These scenes from the past come alive in the latest addition to the Iowa Digital Library’s Iowa City Town and Campus Scenes collection. Along with thousands of photographs documenting the University and its surrounding area, the collection now contains ten sets of digitized filmstrips taken by Professor Frederick W. Kent in the 1920s through the 1940s.

The Libraries is grateful for the assistance of Information Technology Services and the Center for Media Production in helping to make these resources available online to the public.

View the Kent Films.

Visit the Iowa City Town and Campus Scenes home page.