Audio-Visual Collection: Des Moines Subject Files

 

 

 

The audio-visual collection contains Iowa images dating from the 1840's to present day and illustrating a wide range of subject matter which includes businesses, schools, farms, churches, community main streets, landmarks and natural topography, recreational and domestic activities, political and social events. The list below contains photos specific to the Des Moines community, arranged by subject.

 

Arts:

  • Applied (Crafts)

  • Centers & Galleries

  • Fine:

    Dance

    Drama

    Painting/Drawing

Aviation

Bird's-eye & Aerial Views

Black Americans

Bridges & Viaducts (2 files)

Buildings:

  • Commercial

Business & Industry:

  • Advertisements

  • Construction/Demolition

  • Delivery & Shipping

  • Office Interiors

  • Product Distribution:

    Automobiles

    Bakeries

    Books/Magazines/Newspapers

    Boots & Shoes

    Department Stores

    Drug & Pharmacy

    Dry Goods

    Elevators

    Farm Implements

    Florists

    Food

    Fuel

    Furniture & Appliances

    Glass

    Grocery (includes liquor)

    Hardware

    Jewelry

    Lumber

    Machinery

    Meats & Butchering

    Millinery

    Miscellaneous & Unidentified

    Music

    Nursery/Greenhouse/Seed Co.

    Paint & Wallpaper

    Pawnshops/Secondhand

    Shopping Centers/Malls

    Tobacco

    Toys

    Product Production/Extraction:

    Aircraft

    Automobiles

    Bottling & Packaging

    Brewery/Winery

    Brickyards

    Cement

    Clay

    Containers

    Dairy

    Farm Implements

    Feed & Grain

    Food

    Foundry

    Fuel

    Furniture & Appliances

    Garment

    Gypsum

    Ice

    Machinery

    Meat Packing

    Metal Work

    Mills (see separate heading "Mills)

    Mining

    Miscellaneous & Unidentified

    Monuments

    Pharmaceuticals

    Public Utilities

    Publishing

    Sash & Door

    Soybeans

    Steel

    Tires & Rubber

    Wagon Wheel & Carriage Mfg.

    Wool

  • Service:

    Advertising

    Banking (incl. Investment Co.)

    Barber Shop/Beauty Salon

    Construction

    Delivery & Shipping

    Funeral Homes/Undertaking

    Garage & Filling Station

    Insurance - Banker's Life

    Insurance - Miscellaneous

    Junkyards & Waste Disposal

    Laundry & Dry Cleaning

    Livery Stable

    Miscellaneous & Unidentified

    Painting/Decorating

    Photography

    Printing/Lithography

    Real Estate & Surveying

    Restaurants (see separate heading "Restaurants")

    Taverns (see separate heading "Taverns")

Cemeteries & Headstones:

  • Glendale Cemetery

  • Miscellaneous

Churches & Religion:

  • Clergy & Congregations

  • Denominations:

    Baptist

    Catholic

    Christian

    Christian Science

    Church of Christ

    Congregational

    Episcopal

    Evangelical & Reformed

    Evangelical United Brethren

    Jewish

    Lutheran

    Methodist & Methodist Episcopal

    Miscellaneous & Unidentified

    Open Bible

    Presbyterian

    Seventh Day Adventist

Communication:

  • Radio:

    K.S.O. - Kingsley Murphy Collection

    Miscellaneous

  • Television

County Government:

  • Agencies & Officials:

    District Court

    Miscellaneous

    Polk County Board of Supervisors

    Sheriff

  • Buildings & Grounds:

    Miscellaneous

    Polk County Courthouse

    Polk County Farm

Dams

Disasters:

  • Accidents:

    Miscellaneous

    Motor Vehicle

  • Natural:

    Fires (see "Fires & Fire Departments)

    Floods

    Snow & Ice

    Tornadoes

Entertainment & Amusement:

  • Amusement Parks:

    Adventureland

    Ingersoll

    Miscellaneous

    Riverview

  • Auditoriums/Coliseums:

    Civic Center

    Des Moines Coliseum

    Veterans' Memorial Auditorium

  • Circuses/Sideshows/

  • Carnivals

  • Expositions/Exhibitions

  • Fairs:

    County

  • Halls & Opera Houses

  • Miscellaneous

  • Motion Pictures

  • Nightclubs

  • Theaters

  • Zoos

Ethnic & Minority Groups

Federal Government:

  • Agencies & Officials:

  • Buildings & Grounds:

    Federal Court Building

    U.S. Federal Bldg. & Post Office

  • Programs (includes Works Progress/Projects Administration & National Youth Administration)

Fires & Fire Departments:

  • Equipment & Firemen

  • Fires

  • Fire Stations

Historic Sites & Museums

Holidays & Celebrations:

  • Christmas

  • Local

  • Memorial Day

  • Miscellaneous

  • Patriotic

  • Thanksgiving

Hospitals:

  • Broadlawns

  • Hill's Retreat

  • Iowa Lutheran

  • Iowa Methodist

  • Mercy

  • Miscellaneous & Unidentified

  • Polyclinic

  • Veterans'

  • Wilden Osteopathic

Hotels/Motels

Houses & Households:

  • Construction & Razing

  • Famous:

    Cherry Place

    Governors - Miscellaneous

    Hoyt Sherman Place

    Miscellaneous

    Terrace Hill

  • Furnishings

  • Mobile Homes/Tourist Camps

  • Multi-units

  • Rural:

    Exterior - Identified

  • Slums

  • Special Types

  • Suburbs/Annexation

  • Urban:

    Exterior - Identified

    Exterior - Unidentified

    Interior - Identified

  • Urban Renewal

Law & Law Enforcement:

  • Courtroom Scenes

  • Crimes

  • Jails

  • Juvenile Correction

  • Lawyers

  • Police

  • Prohibition

  • Traffic Violations

Libraries

Medicine:

  • Dentistry

  • Disease & Disease Prevention

  • Doctors

  • Miscellaneous

  • Nursing

  • Optometrists/Opticians

Military & War:

  • Miscellaneous

  • World War II:

    Homefront

    Miscellaneous

Mills

Monuments & Markers

Motels (see "Hotels/Motels")

Municipal Government:

  • Agencies & Officials:

  • City Council

  • Mayor

  • Miscellaneous

  • Buildings & Grounds:

  • Armory

  • Carpenter Shop

  • City Hall (Municipal Bldg.)

  • Miscellaneous

  • Motor Vehicle Inspection

  • Municipal Court (and Public Safety Building)

Music:

  • Bands

  • Chorus & Singers

  • Miscellaneous

  • Orchestras

Nature:

  • Animals

  • Birds

  • Conservation

  • Flowers & Plants

  • Scenes

  • Science

  • Seasons:

    Spring

    Summer

    Winter

    Fall

Newspapers & Periodicals

Organizations & Clubs:

  • Animal Rescue League

  • Boy Scouts/Girl Scouts

  • Charity/Relief:

    Miscellaneous

    Salvation Army

  • Civic:

    Chamber of Commerce

    Junior League

    Miscellaneous

  • Country Clubs

  • Des Moines Pioneer Club

  • Hobbies/Special Interest

  • Junior League

  • Labor

  • Masons

  • Miscellaneous

  • Modern Woodmen of America

  • Political

  • Professional

  • Red Cross (see heading "Social Services - Relief")

  • Senior Citizen

  • Shrine

  • Sporting Clubs

  • Women's:

    Miscellaneous

    Women's Christian Temperance Union

  • YMCA/YWCA

Orphanages & Old Age Homes

Parades

Parks & Park Recreation:

  • City:

    Birdland

    Burke

    Ewing

    Grand View

    Greenwood

    McHenry

    McRae

    Miscellaneous

    Pioneer

    Union

    Water Works

    Waukonsa

  • State

Pioneer Life & Immigrants

Politics:

  • County

  • International

  • Municipal

  • National

  • State

Postal Service:

  • Buildings

  • Express

  • Miscellaneous

Railroads

Recreation:

  • Camping/Outings

  • Children's Activities

  • Community Centers

  • Dancing & Dance Halls

  • Gambling

  • Games

  • Pool & Pool Halls

  • Skating:

    Ice

    Roller

  • Sledding

  • Swimming

  • Teen Activities

Restaurants

Rivers & Creeks:

  • Des Moines

  • Raccoon

Roads & Highways:

  • Brick/Cobblestone

  • Construction & Maintenance

  • Streetlights/Signs/Traffic Signals

  • Unsurfaced

Scenes & Views (albums, souvenir books)

Schools & Education:

  • Art Schools

  • Business

  • Colleges & Universities:

    Des Moines College

    Drake University

    Highland Park/Des Moines University

    Miscellaneous & Unidentified

  • Elementary:

    Activities

    Buildings (when grade level of school is not know, photo is filed under "Secondary" buildings)

    Class Pictures

  • One-Room

  • Pre-Schools/Nurseries

  • Religious

  • Secondary:

    Activities

    Buildings (when grade level of school is not known, photo is filed under "Secondary" buildings)

    Class Pictures

  • Special Education:

    Miscellaneous

    Smouse School

  • State & Local Agencies

  • Teachers

  • Vocational/Technical

Social Life & Customs:

  • Community Centers

  • Dating

  • Disabled Persons

  • Family Activities

  • Funerals

  • Old Age & Retirement

  • Parties

  • Pets

  • Suicide

  • Toys

  • Weddings/Marriage

Social Protest

Social Services:

  • Adoption & Child Welfare

  • Relief (including Red Cross)

Sports:

  • Baseball

  • Basketball

  • Bowling

  • Football

  • Golf

  • Hunting & Fishing

  • Miscellaneous

  • Racing:

    Automobile/Motorcycle

  • Tennis

Street Scenes:

  • Business:

    1860-1899

    1900-1919

    1920-1939

    1940-1959

    1960-1979

  • Residential:

    Pre-1900

    Post-1900

Taverns

Transportation:

  • Automobiles

  • Bicycles

  • Buses:

    Curbliners

    Miscellaneous

  • Cabs

  • Horseback

  • Parking

  • Stagecoaches/Coaches

  • Trolleys/Interurbans/Streetcars

  • Trucks

  • Wagons/Buggies/Sleighs

Veterans' Organizations

 

 

 

 

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