Collection Timeline

1894 to 1920

1894
George Pascal II, with a bobsled and team of horses in the winter of 1893-94 at the John Pascal farm near Pocahontas, Iowa.

1899
A woman, Lucy Pascal, holding a sketch pad. Lucy is the sister of Descartes Pascal. She is sitting on a boulder under a tree.

1900
Teacher and students posed outside a one-room schoolhouse. The children in the front row are dressed in white and are carrying flowers. The tallest woman on the left in the back row is Lucy Pascal, sister of Descartes Pascal. The school is located in Lincoln Township, Pocahontas County, Iowa.
Street scene in Grand Mound, Iowa. Men and boys stand outside C. H. Jacobs' Harness Shop. Several more men stand farther down the street.
Street scene in Grand Mound, Iowa. Two men are sitting outside a storefront. Above another shop there is a sign for a cobbler named "A. Schultz" and a dog is sitting beside the doorway to the shop. Farther down the street, three young boys lean against a fireplug or hydrant.

1920
This image depicts a field with several hay stacks. Two men are shown; one is at work stacking the wild prairie grass hay.
Farm workers threshing oats and stacking straw. A steam engine is on the left and a separator is on the right. Ten with pitchforks are on top of the straw pile.
Unity School, west of DeWitt, Iowa. Teacher and students posed outside the one-room schoolhouse.
Pascal family photo. Back row, left to right: Arcana Celestia (Lettie), John, Laura, Descartes (Dan), George, Lucy. Front row, left to right: (Sarah) Celia, Aylett, Lee, George Wourms (father), Talitha Cumi [Cotton] (mother). Celia was Aylett's wife. Lee was their son. The dog's name was Pedro.
Men and boys on ice skates, possibly on the Mississippi River.
Street scene in Grand Mound, Iowa. Men and boys stand in front of one residential and several commercial buildings.
Back view of the Pascal house, Grand Mound, Iowa in winter. Men are cutting wood. Between the two men on the left is a circular saw. On the right are two horses.
Boys on horse-drawn sleds in winter. Lee Pascal and Jasper Babcock are on the front sled. Percy Pascal and Jim Townsen are on the rear sled. The horse's name is Daisy. The photo is taken in front of the corn crib on the Pascal farm.
The Bussen farm house and outbuildings in winter. The house and yard are enclosed by a picket fence. The lawn is covered with snow. There is cupola on one of the outbuildings.
Pascal house, east of Grand Mound, Iowa. George W. Pascal and Talitha Cumi Pascal are on the front porch. Daughters Laura and Arcana (Lettie) are in the front yard.
West side of the main street in Pocahontas, Iowa. There are many men, women, children, wagons, and horses in this street scene.
Two women seated beside the back door of their house in DeWitt, Iowa. On the left is Della M. Cotton and on the right is Bertha M. Cotton. They are the daughters of Salem Cotton and his wife Mercy Brown.
A boy pours something from a bucket into a cauldron steaming over a fire. The girls are dressed in coats and bonnets.
Two men mixing cement to build an ice house behind the Pascal house east of Grand Mound, Iowa.
George and Descartes (Dan) Pascal at the John Pascal farm in Pocahontas, Iowa. The man on the right holds a rifle.
The Bussen farm, east of Grand Mound, Iowa. A man is at a pump near the fence at the front of the yard.
A barber in his shop stands beside a customer seated in a chair.
Railroad tracks at cliffs near DeWitt, Iowa.
A woman, Arcana Celestia (Lettie) Pascal, holds the reins of a horse. A colt stands beside the horse. Arcana is the sister of Descartes Pascal.
Home of George Wourms Pascal and his wife Talitha Cumi Cotton Pascal, parents of Descartes Pascal. Pascal's boyhood home was located near Grand Mound, Iowa. A man in the foreground of the picture is photographing a young standing child.
Family group posed in front of the Boysen home located between Grand Mound and DeWitt in Clinton County, Iowa.
Hunter with boy and dog standing outside a thicket. On the left is Wickliffe Cotton, holding a rifle and wearing an ammunition belt. Wickliffe was the cousin of Descartes Pascal and the son of Salem and Mercy Cotton. On the right is Lee Pascal, nephew of Descartes Pascal. A dog named Pedro sits on a handmade sled beside three dead rabbits. Snow covers the ground.