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• Des Moines, the pioneer of municipal progress and reform of the middle West, together with the history of Polk County, Iowa, the largest, most populous and most prosperous county in the state of Iowa (The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1911), by Johnson Brigham and S.J. Clarke Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annals of Polk county, Iowa, and city of Des Moines (Geo. A. Miller printing company, 1898), by Will Porter (page images at HathiTrust)

• Robert M. Baldwin's who's who in Des Moines (Louisville, Ky. : Robert M. Baldwin Corp., [1929], 1929) (page images at HathiTrust)

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• A preliminary major street plan for Des Moines, Iowa (Des Moines, 1925), by Harland Bartholomew (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of Des Moines (published by The Board of Education, 1947), by Ilda M. Hammer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Annual report of the city of Des Moines (The City, 1908), by Des Moines (Iowa). Auditor (page images at HathiTrust)

• 1980 census of housing. Volume 2, Metropolitan housing characteristics. Des Moines, Iowa. (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census :, 1983), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chamberlain's almanac and reliable weather forcasts for family, field and garden. (Chamberlain Medicine Co., between 1000 and 1999), by Chamberlain Medicine Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bushnell's Des Moines trade circular, containing a brief history and review of the city ... also a description of the new State House of Iowa ... and cards of the leading business houses of Des Moines. (J.P. Bushnell & Co., 1879), by Joseph P. Bushnell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the Housing Commission, city of Des Moines, November, 1917. (s.n, 1917), by Des Moines (Iowa). Housing commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Comprehensive plan for the city of Des Moines, Iowa] (Des Moines City Plan & Zoning Commission, 1960), by Des Moines (Iowa). City Plan & Zoning Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• Des Moines city directory (R.L. Polk & Co., 1894), by R.L. Polk & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des Moines city directory (R.L. Polk & Co., 1908), by R.L. Polk & Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beginnings : reminiscences of early Des Moines (American Lithograph and Ptg. Co., 1919), by Tacitus Hussey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des Moines, the pioneer of municipal progress and reform of the middle West, together with the history of Polk County, Iowa, the largest, most populous and most prosperous county in the state of Iowa (The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1911), by Johnson Brigham and S.J. Clarke Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annals of Polk county, Iowa, and city of Des Moines (Geo. A. Miller printing company, 1898), by Will Porter (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Des Moines plan of commission government, digest and references ([Arcade ptg. Co.], 1910), by Edward C. Lytton and James R. Hanna (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commission government in Iowa : the Des Moines plan (State Historical Society, 1912), by Benjamin F. Shambaugh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Foxy government: (J. H. Welch printing co., 1912), by Paul Henry Ryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commission government in Iowa. (The State historical society of Iowa, 1912), by Benjamin Franklin Shambaugh and State Historical Society of Iowa (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Des Moines plan of commission government ... ([Welch Press], 1912), by Edward C. Lytton, J. Ray Hanna, and Des Moines (Iowa). City Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revised ordinances of the City of Des Moines, 1916. ([Register & Tribune Co.], 1916), by Des Moines (Iowa) and H. W. Byers (page images at HathiTrust)
• A report on boards and commissions in council-manager cities with particular reference to Des Moines. February, 1952. (Reprint-April, 1952) ([Des Moines, 1952), by Office of the Des Moines (Iowa). City Manager (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Des Moines plan of commission government. Adopted by the city of Des Moines, Iowa, at a special election, held June 30, 1907. Booklet revised April, 1939. ([J.H. Welch prtg. Co.], 1939), by Des Moines (Iowa) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Des Moines plan of commission government, digest and references ([Arcade ptg. Co.], 1910), by Edward C. Lytton and James R. Hanna (page images at HathiTrust)

• How much do our schools cost the taxpayer? This booklet answers the question. (East high school press, 1932), by Des Moines (Iowa). Independent School District. Board of Directors (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the Housing Commission, city of Des Moines, November, 1917. (s.n, 1917), by Des Moines (Iowa). Housing commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the Housing Commission, city of Des Moines, November, 1917. (s.n, 1917), by Des Moines (Iowa). Housing commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social analysis of Des Moines ([Des Moines, 1935), by Iowa. State Planning Board, Willis Rauscher, Leslie Kral, and Donald Art Trauger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Neighborhood library service; a survey of the extension services of the Public Library of Des Moines, prepared at the direction of the Board of Trustees of the Public Library of Des Moines. (Public Library of Des Moines, 1959), by Frederick Wezeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical sketch of the Des Moines Public Library (P. C. Kenyon Press, 1893), by Ella M. McLoney (page images at HathiTrust)

• Highland Park College of Music and Oratory ... catalogue. (Homestead Print. Co., between 1000 and 1999), by Iowa) Highland Park College of Music and Oratory (Des Moines (page images at HathiTrust)

• The End of the Ku Klux Klan, by Inu Esrov (PDF page images at MSU)

• To designate the federal building located at 210 Walnut Street in Des Moines, Iowa, as the "Neal Smith Federal Building : report (to accompany H.R. 1045) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). (U.S. G.P.O., 2007), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (page images at HathiTrust)

• A narrative history of the people of Iowa, with special treatment of their chief enterprises in education, religion, valor, industry, business, etc. (American Historical Society, 1931), by Edgar Rubey Harlan and American Historical Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Iowa department of the Grand Army of the Republic (The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1936), by Grand Army of the Republic. Dept. of Iowa, Jacob Armstrong Swisher, Iowa. General Assembly, and State Historical Society of Iowa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Robert Lucas (State historical society of Iowa, 1907), by John Carl Parish and State Historical Society of Iowa (page images at HathiTrust)
• The blue book of Iowa women; a history of contemporary women ([Press of the Missouri Printing and Publishing Company], 1914), by Winona Evans Reeves (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iowa colonels and regiments: being a history of Iowa regiments in the war of the rebellion; and containing a description of the battles in which they have fought. (Mills & co., 1865), by Addison A. Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Iowa from the earliest times to the beginning of the twentieth century (Century History Company, 1903), by B. F. Gue (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographies and portraits of the progressive men of Iowa, leaders in business, politics and the professions; together with an original and authentic history of the state, by ex-Lieutenant-Governor B. F. Gue. (Conaway & Shaw, 1899), by Benjamin Franklin Shambaugh and Benjamin F. Gue (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections and sketches of notable lawyers and public men of early Iowa belonging to the first and second generations, with anecdotes and incidents illustrative of the times (Homestead Pub., 1916), by Edward H. Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• An illustrated history of the state of Iowa : being a complete civil, political, and military history of the state from its first exploration down to 1875 ... (R.S. Peale, 1876), by Charles R. Tuttle and Daniel S. Durrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Western life-boat and journal of biography, history and geography. (Life Boat Publishing Co., 1872), by Abraham Coryell Edmunds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Register of the Society of Sons of the Revolution in the State of Iowa [1912] (E. Borcherdt, Printer, 1912), by Sons of the Revolution; Iowa Society and Frank Hayward Kincaid (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bench and bar of Iowa, illustrated with steel and copper engravings. (American Biographical Pub. Co., 1901), by Ill.) American Biographical Publishing Co. (Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our judges: brief sketches of the judges who have occupied the bench in the First judicial district of Iowa, from the territorial organization to November 1895 (Acres, Blackmar & co., printers, 1895), by George Frazee and Des Moines County (Iowa). Bar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of representative men of Chicago, Iowa and the World's Columbian exposition. (American Biographical Pub. Co., 1893), by Ill.) American Biographical Publishing Co. (Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Memorial and biographical record of Iowa. (Walsworth Pub. Co., 1978) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography of John Chambers (The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1908), by John Chambers and John Carl Parish (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iowa, its history and its foremost citizens (The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1915), by Johnson Brigham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iowa : its history and its foremost citizens (S.J. Clarke, 1918), by Johnson Brigham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Iowa legislature of 1896. Containing biographical sketches of the members of the twenty-sixth General Assembly of Iowa, state officers and members of Congress. (Des Moines, 1895), by Willis L. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The United States biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self made men. Iowa volume. (American biographical publishing company, 1878), by pub American Biographical Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iowa : its history and its foremost citizens (S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1916), by Johnson Brigham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of Iowa; the progress of an American state. (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1952), by William John Petersen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brief information concerning Iowa artists (Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs, 1917), by Jeannette M. Drake and Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Northwestern Iowa; its history and traditions, 1804-1926. (S.J. Clarke, 1927), by Arthur Francis Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

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