Articles Tagged: The History Center

The History Center in Cedar Rapids celebrates return of ‘Rudolph’s Retreat’ from Armstrong’s Department store of yore

Armstrong’s employee Ron King, who helped bring the famous holiday displays to shoppers for 24 years, has rebuilt the last one that graced the store. The exhibit opens this weekend at The History Center.

Cedar Rapids furriers offered cold storage during the summer

An interesting artifact was unearthed and donated to The History Center recently – a diary from 1923 that features 365 entries. It was kept by a 22-year old man.

A nationally touring exhibit at The History Center explores a tumultuous time in American history where “wets” and “drys” fought a battle of the bottle that would change the social fabric of America.

Photos and documentation of people at area gay events before the 1970s are fairly rare, so much of what we know comes from an amalgamation of diaries, oral histories, stories passed down and clues left behind.

Playmobile was haulf to neighborhoods where kids lacked access to playground equipment.

Linn County children volunteered in 1954 for trials of Dr. Jonas Salk’s vaccine