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“A fresh start,” Jan. 1, 1941<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0“…Spent New Years Day in camp. Weather very cold. Ice sufficiently strong to bear a man’s weight. We have good reason to believe that the present year will wind up the Rebellion.” \u00a0<\/p>\n “The New Year of 1968 offers NAACP Branches another chance to tie national items into programs on the local and state levels which will deal with the problems faced by the people. The civil rights movement is by no means over…” \u00a0<\/p>\n Barack Obama: New Year’s Day in Des Moines<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n “To the best of Len’s recollection, he met Charis on New Year’s morning…” \u00a0<\/p>\n “A happy new year,” 1912<\/a> As we prepare to make a fresh start of new projects in 2009, we’re featuring a few New Year’s-related items from past collections in Iowa Digital Library, ranging\u00a0from a Jan. 1 diary entry\u00a0in 1864 to a\u00a0presidential campaign video\u00a0captured 144 years later. \u00a0 Thank you\u00a0to all of the Libraries staff who have helped us make soContinue reading “A fresh start”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3972,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/3972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/01\/nye1.jpg\")
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\nEditorial Cartoons of Ding Darling Digital Collection<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/01\/nye2.jpg\")
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\nGeorge M. Shearer diary, 1864<\/a>
\nCivil War Diaries Digital Collection<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/01\/nye41.jpg\")
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\nNAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1968
\n<\/a>African American Women in Iowa Digital Collection<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/01\/nye3.jpg\")
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\nPresidential Campaign Videos Digital Collection<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/01\/nye6.jpg\")
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\nFruit of the Month, 1988
\nUniversity of Iowa Press Digital Collection<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/01\/nye51.jpg\")
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\nNoble Photographs Digital Collection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"