Photographs & Audio/Visual

Discover more than one million photographs, films and recordings documenting Iowa history from the 1840s to the present. Materials in the collection include photographic prints, daguerreotypes, tintypes, glass plate, lithographic, slides, film, video cassettes and digital formats.

Collection Highlights

Photo Collections in Des Moines

• Des Moines (Iowa) Subject Files
• General (Iowa) Subject Files
• Iowa Cities Files
• Personal, Family and Organizational Collections
• Portraits of Notable Iowans
• Online Gallery of Select Photographs

Photo Collections in Iowa City

• Iowa City (Iowa) Subject Files
• Iowa Cities Files (Iowa City Collection) 
• Iowa Stereo Photographers