Iowa Historical Mobile Museum

Iowa Historical Mobile Museum will be at the Fairfield Farmers Market Wednesday August 2nd 2:30 – 6:00 pm. Come check it out. The mobile Museum will be parked on the Southeast corner of the Fairfield Iowa square. No entry fee.
•a Meskwaki cradleboard from the late 1800s, a frame used in combination with a beaded wrap to protect infantsknitting
•needles used by Jane Kirkwood of Iowa City to aid soldiers during the Civil War and World War I
•a birchbark lunchbox used by a boy in Cerro Gordo county in the 1870s
•women’s suffrage materials including the pen Gov. William Harding of Sibley used to sign Iowa’s 19th Amendment bill, as part of the national effort to ensure women’s right to vote
•a University of Iowa pennant owned by Edward Carter of Monroe County, the first African American to get a medical degree from the University of Iowa
•a business card from the 1920s of J.L. Spriggs, an African-American homebuilder in Des Moines
•boots worn by Des Moines Water Works director L.D. McMullen during the flood of 1993
•a NASA-issued, flight suit worn by record-breaking astronaut Peggy Whitson of Beaconsfield
•photographs of Iowans from across the state