Fall 2020 • Vol. 2, Issue 20 Local women’s suffrage campaign chronicled included of Iowa’s all-male voters in extending 1916. Sioux City became a the vote to key battleground in the run- women. The up to the referendum. Nearly bill died in every prominent suffragist committee, and anti-suffragist made but in 1870 a stop in Sioux City. The a resolution referendum failed statewide to amend by 10,000 votes, although it the Iowa was only narrowly defeated Constitution in Woodbury County. After The Women’s Suffrage Campaign in to enfran- passing both houses of Sioux City exhibit will be on display through 2020. chise women Congress, Iowa became n commemoration of passed both houses of the 10th state to ratify the the 100th anniversary the state legislature. The proposed 19th Amendment Iof the passage of the following year suffragist on July 2, 1919. 19th Amendment in 1920, leader Susan B. Anthony The Women’s Suffrage campaigned in support Historic images Campaign in Sioux City of the bill in Iowa. Her trip featured exhibit will be on display included a stop in Sioux through 2020 at the Sioux City City where she gave a Photographs of Sioux City Public Museum. The exhibit speech at the Academy of between 1866 and 1920, features historic photographs, Music. Unfortunately, the bill along with images of local period clothing, and artifacts failed to pass the General legislators, suffragists and relating to local suffragists, Assembly a second time in anti-suffragists, are featured women’s clubs and political 1872. Between 1870 and as a slideshow in the exhibit. figures of the era. 1920, suffrage amendment resolutions were introduced The images are also part of The suffrage movement in almost every session of a two-part History at High began in earnest during the the General Assembly. These Noon program narrated by 1840s when U.S. states began resolutions passed both Matt Anderson, Curator of changing laws that restricted houses seven times, only to History, presented online in the ability of married women fail during the next session conjunction with the exhibit. to own and control property six times. The lone exception independently from their occurred in 1915 when the A virtual exhibit tour is husbands. In Iowa, the General Assembly passed a also available by visiting process began in 1866 when suffrage resolution that had SiouxCityMuseum.org. a bill was introduced in passed at the 1913 session. It the General Assembly that was referred to a referendum Inside: FY20 Annual Report The Sioux City Public Museum collects, preserves, and interprets cultural and social history with an emphasis on Sioux City and the region. GRAND OPENING Experience the history of Sioux City like never before! You are invited to celebrate the grand opening of the new Sioux City Public Museum. Explore state-of-the-art interactive displays, engaging permanent exhibits, rare Sioux City artifacts and so much more. Please join us on this history-making day as we present ÒOur New MuseumÓ to the community. WHO: Sioux City Public Museum WHAT: Grand Opening Ceremony & Ribbon Cutting WHEN: Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. WHERE: 607 4th Street Volunteer board and committee members needed re you interested Serving on the bridal showers, meetings, in helping preserve Association Board company parties, etc. Rental ASioux City’s history? • Board members are events are primarily held Volunteers are needed for elected for three-year terms. on weekends and some the Sioux City Museum & • Meetings are generally evenings. Historical Association board held every second Tuesday • Volunteers assist with the and its committee for the of the month at 6:30 p.m. Peirce Mansion Committee’s Peirce Mansion. four annual Open House Becoming a Peirce events. The Association is the non- Mansion Volunteer • Volunteers are encouraged profit membership arm of • Volunteers help clean, to attend a short monthly the Sioux City Public Museum maintain, restore and meeting generally held providing the financial preserve the historically- every second Tuesday of the support necessary to offer a accurate home. month at 6:00 p.m. wide range of programs and • Volunteers sign up to exhibits to the community oversee special events and If interested, contact and welcome thousands of private rentals including, Museum Director Steve visitors each year. weddings, receptions, Hansen at 712-279-6174. Volunteer Spotlight Glenn Barnett & Jerald Goehring ith 30 years of City area since 1996 when “Team Spirit Award.” The pair combined volunteer his long career in education wore the “S” and the “L” hats Wservice, Glenn brought him to Dakota Valley to spell out M.V. SERGEANT Barnett and Jerald Goehring Elementary School to serve FLOYD. As Christine Dekker, have been fixtures at the as principal. Welcome Center Supervisor, Sergeant Floyd River Museum says, “I’m always grateful to & Welcome Center since Glenn and his wife, Sharon, know I can count on them the mid-2000s. Both point moved to Sioux City in 1988 for anything!” to their love of sharing the after his The 2019 Litter Dash Team, history of the Lewis and Clark career pictured below: M-Augie Nicolai; V-Meredith Expedition as part of the in the Air Benton, Facilities reason they volunteer. Force Attendant; S-Glenn Barnett; G-Brad Holder; from 1960 T-Jan Youngberg; F-Laurna Jerald and his wife, Donna, to 1985. Herren, Desk Attendant, L-Jerald Goehring; participated in the Junior Glenn says O-Jessica Dekker; League of Sioux City’s he likes Y-Maddox Olson; and D-Christine Dekker. Siouxland Discovery Corps meeting volunteer training program and talking offered through the Sioux with the City Public Museum in visitors. “I 2002-2003 as part of the absolutely love explaining bicentennial of the Lewis river history and Lewis and and Clark Expedition. After Clark history,” says Glenn. volunteering at the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center, Besides regular shifts at the Jerald started volunteering at Welcome Center, Glenn and the Welcome Center in 2005. Jerald joined the 2019 Litter Jerald has lived in the Sioux Dash team, which won the Sioux City Museum & Historical Association ANNUAL REPORT Fiscal Year 2019 – 2020 • July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020 Director’s Report by Steve Hansen elcome to this year’s report you will concur that pause and reflect upon our annual report. I we had another strong year blessings. Whope you enjoy the of programming and serving contents as much as we the public. I have been with the Sioux have enjoyed sharing the City Public Museum for 19 events and memories of the We know that it will be a years and still feel incredibly past year. season of uncertainty fortunate to come to work and also a time when with a team of staff members We all know that this year has traditionally we pause and that take a tremendous been historic on many levels reflect upon our blessings. amount of pride in their and the impact COVID-19 jobs and our Museum. We has had on all areas of life As I write this, we are on the have an incredible group can not be overstated. threshold of entering the of volunteers starting with The Museum staff and our holiday season. We know our Board of Trustees, our volunteers have had to that it will be a season of Association Board members adapt to the situation, and uncertainty and also a and all of you who have I believe as you review this time when traditionally we invested time in one or more of our facilities. I thank everyone for your support and wish you a healthy and peaceful holiday season and a new year full of blessings. While the Museum’s sites closed to the public on March 15, 2020, work continued behind the scenes: garbage was picked up along the riverfront, online videos were created, images were digitized, and facilities were readied for the public to return safely after the end of the fiscal year. The Sioux City Public Museum collects, preserves, and interprets cultural and social history with an emphasis on Sioux City and the region. Sioux City Public Museum The FY20 year began with The February program set a view the projects: a slide- programs related to the trav- new record of 175 attendees show of all of the individual eling exhibit, Bandits & He- to see “The Riverside Story.” projects, scrollable photos roes, Poets & Saints: Popular Sadly, this was the last in-per- of the projects, and a virtu- Art of the Northeast of Brazil. son program of FY20 as the al tour of how the projects New summer programs, Sci- Museum closed to the public were displayed in the exhibit ence Lab 101 and Let’s Make in March due to the pan- gallery. A special video was a Raspberry Pi – Intro, were demic. Because the Museum created to honor the award popular. Other youth pro- had already been offering winners since the annual grams included a Star Wars the monthly presentations on award ceremony could not Boy Scouts Day and a Holi- the internet, the programs be held. These online experi- day Make and Take activity. were transitioned to exclu- ences were available on the sively online starting in April. Museum’s website and so- The Day of the Dead (Día cial media so that teachers, de los Muertos) Celebration The timing was particularly students and parents could featuring La Perla Tapatia, a unfortunate since the an- view and share them. dance group from Irving Ele- nual Sioux City History Proj- mentary School, face paint- ects exhibit of models and Other digital offerings includ- ing, and activities for children posters made by Sioux City ed more “Day in Sioux City had more than 220 in atten- fourth grade students had History” Facebook posts and dance.