The Iowa Centennial half dollar was designed by Adam Pietz and minted in 1946. The reverse depicts the Iowa Old Capitol Building (also known as the "Old...
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The half dollar, sometimes referred to as the half for short or 50-cent piece, is a United States coin worth 50 cents, or one half of a dollar. In both...
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center of the University of Iowa's campus. The building was depicted on the 1946 Iowa Centennial commemorative half dollar. It was individually listed...
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States portal "1946 Iowa Centennial Half Dollar Commemorative Coin". 6 October 2011. Retrieved 2019-04-09. "The Early Quarter Dollars of the United States:...
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The Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar was a fifty-cent piece struck intermittently by the United States Bureau of the Mint between 1926 and 1939. The...
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centennial celebration. This shield was modeled after the centennial flag designed by Wallace Rice. Illinois portal Illinois Centennial half dollar Symbols...
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quarter fell during a storm on August 21, 1856. It also appears on a 1936 half dollar commemorating the 300th anniversary of the state's settlement by Europeans...
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Quad Cities (redirect from Quad Cities, Iowa)
(originally four, see History) in the U.S. states of Iowa and Illinois: Davenport and Bettendorf in southeastern Iowa, and Rock Island, Moline and East Moline in...
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List of United States commemorative coins and medals (2000s) (redirect from U.S. Capitol Visitor Center commemorative half dollar)
of Iowa. The University of Iowa Press. Retrieved January 10, 2019. [verification needed] Fuson, Ken (July 11, 2004). "Mint set to strike first Iowa quarters"...
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The Lafayette dollar was a silver coin issued as part of the United States' participation in the Paris World's Fair of 1900. Depicting Gilbert du Motier...
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Center is located at the foot of the Centennial Bridge. Uptown features a few historic landmarks such as the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home which took in...
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Alabama Centennial half dollar, Calvin Coolidge on the Sesquicentennial half dollar, Carter Glass on the Lynchburg Sesquicentennial half dollar, Joseph...
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Lincoln Highway (category Historic trails and roads in Iowa)
Council Bluffs, Iowa, and three versions of the Historic Douglas St. Bridge. In 2013, in celebration of the Lincoln Highway's Centennial, Nolan Stolz composed...
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Édouard de Laboulaye proposed a monument to commemorate the upcoming centennial of U.S. independence (1876), the perseverance of American democracy and...
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Tercentenary half dollar commemorative coin. Despite his objections, Weinman is still best remembered as the designer of the Walking Liberty Half Dollar, a design...
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Washington: Oregon Wisconsin: Iowa, Michigan State, Minnesota Illinois: Missouri Indiana: Kentucky Iowa: Iowa State, Iowa Big Four Maryland: Duke, Georgetown...
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mother's residence in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Jessie and her sister were piano students in the summer session of Iowa Wesleyan in 1886. She was later initiated...
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Jessie eloped in 1897 with Warren Beckwith, a classmate and football star at Iowa Wesleyan College. Before their divorce in 1907, they had two children: Mary...
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Mamie and her sister, Jessie, were piano students in the summer session of Iowa Wesleyan in 1886. Mamie later became a member of the Mount Pleasant Chapter...
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Mary Lincoln Beckwith (category People from Mount Pleasant, Iowa)
Lincoln and Warren Wallace Beckwith on August 22, 1898, in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. She got the nickname "Peggy" from her grandfather Robert Todd Lincoln, who...
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and United States Territories quarters, five dollar coins, and the standard nickel, dime, and half dollar. In 2019, a penny featuring the W mint mark (indicating...
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approved $2.5 million ($3,000,000 in 2023 dollars) to support stabilization of Irishtown Bend in March 2018, half what had been sought by backers of the...
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Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved July 4, 2024. "Panama-Pacific Exposition Half Dollar". United states Mint. Retrieved July 13, 2024. "Hail Columbia". Hail...
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"could be redeemable in dollars". The Mint issued gold coins for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and for the centennial of the Statue of Liberty...
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Lincoln Cultural depictions films Art Currency Illinois Centennial half dollar Lincoln penny Five-dollar bill Mount Rushmore Anniversary coins Postage stamps...
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Carrie Chapman Catt (category Iowa State University alumni)
inductee into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame. and in 1982, Catt was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. In 1992, the Iowa Centennial Memorial Foundation...
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Muscatine, Iowa to Rock Island County, Illinois Plattsmouth Bridge, connects Cass County, Nebraska to Mills County, Iowa Rock Island Centennial Bridge, connects...
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Tournament Kate Bradley's annual Shady Rest Jamboree The Hooterville Centennial Celebration (1968) Old Mail Day at Drucker's Store The Spring Festival...
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up in Tingley, Iowa, and were educated at Tingley High School. Pollock's mother is interred at Tingley Cemetery, Ringgold County, Iowa. His father had...
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Henry A. Wallace (category Burials in Iowa)
from 1921 to 1924, Henry A. Wallace was born in rural Iowa in 1888. After graduating from Iowa State University in 1910, he worked as a writer and editor...
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