Category: Shades of Dubuque

John Casper Wild 1844 Dubuque Sketch with smoke from Kelly’s smelter at top left. Thomas Kelly Grave Linwood Cemetery. Photo Connie Cherba. Mi

Otto Junkermann. Photo contributed by E.B. Lyons Nature Preserve. Junkermann & Haas price list. Photo contributed by Encyclopedia Dubuque. Jun

Before Dr. Nancy Hill began practicing medicine in Dubuque in 1874 as the city’s first female physician and before she helped start an organization

Julien Dubuque left no journals of his exploits and no diary detailing his day-to-day activities, but we do know some basic facts about his life.  D

Downtown Dubuque boasts an abundance of historic, red brick buildings. Many were built using locally produced brick. Back in the mid to late 1800s a

The historic log cabin sitting proudly on a hilltop at Dubuque’s Mathias Ham Historic Site has the distinction of being the city’s and Iowa’s oldest

Sunnycrest Manor, the Dubuque County-owned nursing home, officially opened nearly 101 years ago on August 13, 1921 as a tuberculosis sanatorium – a

Seventy-five years ago on March 12, 1947, the first “M” tractor rolled off the assembly line at the brand new “John Deere Dubuque Works of Deere Man

A window sign requesting an ice delivery would look pretty strange in the 21st century, but back in the 1800s and early 1900s, the signal for the ic