Collection Corner

The Museum highlights one aspect of its collection items or procedures in each issue of the Iowa Griot, its quarterly newsletter. The links below are reprints of those articles.

What happens to an item once it's donated to our collection?

Pauline Brown Humphrey and the Crescent School for Beauty Culture

The Scrapbook of Altheda Beatrice Moore Smith

What an Umpire Needs

My Grandfather Staring Back at Me

History in Danger

To Borrow, but Not to Keep: Making Electronic Copies

Interpretting the Collection