This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Christmas letters and public notices from Rolfe era
A compilation of year by year notes from Rolfe, including wedding cake transport for Lynda Bird Johnson, a concert in Sioux City, student talks, merit scholarship semi finals, local moves, and Christmas letters from fourth graders with toy requests. The pieces span 1927 to 1967, listing community events, births, travels, and Holiday wishes in a small Iowa town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradgate and Rolfe Cooperative Company
Sterling Meurer
N. J. Meurer
Plover
Lynda Bird Johnson
Lyndon Johnson
Charles Robb
Lee Thorson
Eppley Auditorium
Sioux City
Sinfonietta
Morningside College
Carol Biedermann
Wm. Fisher
East High
Waterloo
Bruce Fisher
Ivan Ralph Mortensen
Ralph
Alice Mortensen
Ivan
Rolfe Consolidated High School
Art Kilbourn
Hewlett
Grant
Hee ‘Haw
Virgil Thorson
Forest City
Arch Ives